Timeline for Using a 360k (DD 5.25") floppy with Windows XP?
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| Nov 13, 2018 at 13:01 | comment | added | Brian Knoblauch | @rakslice Yes, capacity is correctly set in BIOS setup | |
| Nov 12, 2018 at 22:15 | comment | added | rakslice | Just so it doesn't go without mention, is the correct capacity for the floppy drive selected in the BIOS setup? | |
| Jun 7, 2018 at 20:19 | vote | accept | Brian Knoblauch | ||
| Jun 17, 2017 at 20:34 | answer | added | redsPL | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 8:42 | comment | added | john_e | 360k drives don't tend to support the 'Disk changed' signal. If the XP floppy driver depends on this, that might explain why the drive isn't working under XP. | |
| Jun 9, 2017 at 19:29 | comment | added | tofro | @ninjalj I had that PC for years and never lost any data - The alternative would have been no drive. What's worse? | |
| Jun 8, 2017 at 16:27 | comment | added | ninjalj | @tofro: I wouldn't recommend that, as I remember W9x corrupting either the FAT or the root directory (can't remember which) after swapping floppies when the floppy drive was disabled in the BIOS. | |
| Jun 8, 2017 at 12:58 | comment | added | Brian Knoblauch | @RossRidge I don't think it's the media descriptor byte as the problem does not track with which disk I happen to have in. It's random, and each subsequent disk in the session will follow the results of the first one. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 23:21 | comment | added | user722 | Windows XP requires that floppies be formatted with a correct media descriptor byte, so it might just be a problem with how your floppies are formatted. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 22:14 | history | edited | Brian Knoblauch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2017 at 22:13 | comment | added | Brian Knoblauch | Oh geez, I put Windows 95... Was supposed to be XP. Doh... Editing... | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 22:12 | comment | added | Brian Knoblauch | @wizzwizz4 DOS doesn't even see the hard drive... | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 21:52 | comment | added | user722 | It probably confused about what type the drive is, thinking its either a 1.2 MB 5.25" drive or a 3.5" drive. Make sure the BIOS has both A: and B: drives configured correctly. Also check that the icons for the A: and B: drives in My Computer have little 5.25" and 3.5" floppies respectively. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 17:53 | comment | added | wizzwizz4♦ | What happens when you boot into DOS, "talk" to the drive, then start Windows? (I assume you haven't got the NT version.) | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 17:38 | comment | added | tofro | I used to have a Windows 95 PC that only properly accepted my B: floppy drive when I unchecked that drive's detection in the BIOS | |
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| Jun 7, 2017 at 17:22 | history | asked | Brian Knoblauch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |