Re: Opening files from floppy disks on XP computers

From: Jay Bollyn (jbollyn@neiu.edu)
Date: 08/27/02 

From: "Jay Bollyn" <jbollyn@neiu.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:51:59 -0500

Reformat one of your diskettes in your XP machine, see if the problem goes
away. Some preformatted diskettes do not have a proper Media Descriptor
Byte. Such diskettes will work fine in win9x, but not in nt4/win2k/winxp.

NT4/win2k/winxp will write the MDB properly when it formats the diskette.

I am unaware of an XP security issue that would cause this. Certainly, one
can lock out a diskette drive with XP security, but it would not happen as
you describe.

"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. <snip>

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