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Win2k and floppy drive problems

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by golee77

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I know a similar question has been posted earlier, however, I would like to open this question up again and see if there is any "new" information on the following problem. This problem is pretty widespread across a school campus on Win2k machines and very intermittent. When you try to access a floppy you get the error: disk is not formatted. Would you like to format now. These are 2yr old to brand new machines with virus programs up to date. Example: we re-did a lab that previously was running Win98 last year (no floppy problems) Installed Win2k (no upgrade) and we now have intermittent floppy problems. I haven't found anything in MS KB. Thanks for your help !

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by cg it

I've run across that problem on our W2K machines that have NTFS dynamic volumes. We did a test on W2K with FAT32 and didn't see a problem with floppy's being read as unformatted as we did with those W2K machines that were NTFS dynamic volumes. We also didn't see a problem when the NTFS were basic. If we reinserted the floppy again, right after the "disk not formatted" message came up, the O/S read the floppy just fine. We just figured it was just that W2K sometimes "runs on the mumbo".

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