Re: Opening files from floppy disks on XP computers

From: Alan Levy (levy@nospaminteraccess.com)
Date: 08/27/02 

From: "Alan Levy" <levy@nospaminteraccess.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:41:40 -0500

Tivteryn:

Have you tried on a fresh set of floppy disks? Floppy disks can go bad
after a period of time. Purchase a brand new set of pre-formatted floppies
and report back if you are still having issues.

Have a nice day,
Alan 

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Microsoft MVP
"Tivteryn" <tivteryn@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:8c1701c24dcd$bf50e760$a5e62ecf@tkmsftngxa07...
> I have a desktop computer and a laptop, both running
> Windows XP.  I can save a file on a floppy on one
> computer, put it in the second computer, go to explorer,
> see the files that are listed on the disk but I'm unable
> to open them.  The A: drive tries, but it "sits and spins"
> as if it's hung up.  This happens regardless of the
> computer I use.
>
> I've been told that it's not the hardware.  It's a
> security issue within XP.  Given that I work in an
> environment where we're not networked and have to share
> floppies, this isn't a good thing (as you can imagine).
> The computer manufacturers are at a loss to explain this
> problem and have no idea why XP is behaving this way. Does
> anyone know what needs to be done in order to share
> floppies on XP computers?  I've shared the files, ran the
> network wizard (although I'm not on a network), I've even
> disabled the anti-virus software, but the same problem
> continues to happen.  I'd appreciate any help because
> we're running into serious problems.

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