Hi, I’m new at forums so bear with me…
I am trying to get a flopy disk drive to work within windows XP SP2 with all the updates installed….Everytime I try and do anything with regards to the disk Windows claims that the disk is unformatted and would I like to format it now. I have complied and windows has began the format process. Once the process completes I then try and access my nelwy formatted floppy and windows says that the disk is not accessable as it does not have a valid file system. I suspect there is a bug in XP here. To be complete I have checked that the disk drive works in a linux machine and I have also checked that I can access disks from the XP machine using a knoppix live disk. Surprise surprise I can access floppy disks and write to them. As soon as I boot back into XP though I cannot access the disk. I have also noticed that I cannot access flash drives that have not been formatted with the NTFS file system. Does anybody know of a bug within XP SP2 that prevents you accessing non NTFS file systems and is there a work around. I need to access the floppy drive to load on some SATA drivers so that I can reinstall windows. I can’t however because I can’t copy the drivers to the 3.5″ floppy. I tried streaming the drivers to a custom XP cd but the installation program claims that the drivers are corrupt…unlikely as I downloaded then off the website probably another post anyway.
Of interest is that when I boot the PC with the XP disk and enter the recovery console I can access the floppy drive and there are no errors. This is why I suspect that XP cannot read or mount non NTFS file systems.
Any ideas??
