Re: Floppy Disk Drive Access Error caused by HOTFIX ?
From: Karl Levinson, mvp (levinson_k_at_despammed.com)
Date: 11/15/05
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:06:36 -0500
Don't format floppy disks in servers? ; D
Just kidding. But support calls to Microsoft are free if caused by a
hotfix. Unless someone else here knows specifically which hotfix.
"nobody" <nobody@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:18853154-BA63-4857-99F6-A696DF372B4F@microsoft.com...
> I have many DELL servers that I support running Windows2003 Server
Standard
> Edition. Recently I started receiving reports of a "Windows was unable to
> complete the format" error message when using Windows Explorer to format a
> floppy disk in the server disk drive.
>
> Replacing the disk drives did not solve the problem, new diskettes did not
> help and the only thing that has changed on these servers lately is MS
> security hotfixes. On another internet forum I was told this was caused by
a
> recent hotfix, Does anyone know of a problem with a hotfix that might
cause
> problems formatting floppies?
>
> If we format from a CMD prompt, sometimes it works sometimes not. If we
> format the same 3.5" HD diskette on an XP workstation, when we try to use
the
> diskette back on the server, we get a similar message from the disaster
> recovery portion of ARCserve.
>
> suggestions?
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