[dba-Tech] Formatting diskettes

Bob Geldart bgeldart at verizon.net
Sun May 8 14:36:39 CDT 2005


Steve,

I'm still doing it on my PC (XP Home, SP-2).

I still have so many 3½ diskettes, and so seldom a great need, if one gives 
me a problem I toss it.

Bob

At 5/8/2005 01:27 PM, you wrote:
>Dear Group,
>
>Have any of you tried to format a 3 1/2" floppy disk lately under
>Windows XP? I tried just now on four separate machines with three
>different diskettes. Every machine presented the message: Windows
>cannot complete the format.
>
>Any of you seen this behavior?
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve Erbach
>Scientific Marketing
>Neenah, WI
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Bob Geldart             BGeldart at verizon.net
Maynard, MA



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