[pchelpers] Re: no format
- From: "PcCowboy" <saddle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:24:32 -0500
>What kind of format is it trying to do? The floppy is not going to be
>happy with the NTFS format XP uses. Most likely it is FAT12 (or is it
>16)? You may also have a faulty media problem on the disk. Try a couple.
>Also, put in a ready formatted one and see if the drive reads it correctly.
The a: drive works just fine. It reads and writes. I was flashing my bios
and it asked for a formatted disk. So I pushed in a disk and went to MY
Computer and told it to format the a: drive. That is when I found that
I could not format a disk. But as I said, if I tell it to make a Dos System disk
It format it and palces allthe files on it.
My XP is running the NTFS and I was asumming it could format a floppy
with the Dos format ( Fat32 or 16) There is no option to pick what files sytem
to format a disk that I can see. But I guess it can't.
Pc
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