[dba-Tech] Formatting diskettes

What's a floppy disk? LOL.

Yes, far too often I have seen this same behaviour. However, given the 
cost of CDs, I have abandoned diskettes forever, except when I have to 
boot a system to DOS.

Steve Erbach 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
>www.swerbach.com
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