Windows XP Prof (Home Ed.) Floppy Disk

[D. Kelly]

08/11/03

Have new (1-week old)Compact Lap-top running Windows XP
Prof. Home Ed. and Microsoft Office XP Professional 2002.

Trying to transfer Office files back and forth to my older
Compact Lap-top running Windows-98 Updated, and Office
upgraded to Office XP Professional 2002.

Systems won't recognize or read each other's floppy's.
Floppy's lock-up each others disk drives.

Is there an inexpensive solution?

Is there no DOS on the Windows XP Home Ed. such that I can
go to the Hard Drive and create a directory into which I
could dump the application programs from the older
computer and at least have compatible environments on both?

Thanks,

[Michael Moore [MS]]

Hi there-
Have the floppy disks been properly formatted prior to use? If they have, what file system are you using to format. Windows 98 can only recognize FAT and FAT32, not NTFS, although I doubt you have your XP disks formatted with NTFS.

--
Michael Moore
Technology Specialist
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"D. Kelly" > wrote in message ...
> 08/11/03
>
> Have new (1-week old)Compact Lap-top running Windows XP
> Prof. Home Ed. and Microsoft Office XP Professional 2002.
>
> Trying to transfer Office files back and forth to my older
> Compact Lap-top running Windows-98 Updated, and Office
> upgraded to Office XP Professional 2002.
>
> Systems won't recognize or read each other's floppy's.
> Floppy's lock-up each others disk drives.
>
> Is there an inexpensive solution?
>
> Is there no DOS on the Windows XP Home Ed. such that I can
> go to the Hard Drive and create a directory into which I
> could dump the application programs from the older
> computer and at least have compatible environments on both?
>
> Thanks,
>

[Ken Blake]

"Michael Moore [MS]" > wrote in
message ...

> Have the floppy disks been properly formatted prior to use?
> If they have, what file system are you using to format.
Windows
> 98 can only recognize FAT and FAT32, not NTFS, although I doubt
> you have your XP disks formatted with NTFS.


There is no ability to format diskettes as NTFS in any operating
system. All standard diskettes are FAT12, regardless of the
version of Windows, and there is no choice of what file system to
use. Incompatibility of file systems is certainly not the
problem.

Problems like this normally have nothing to do with any
difference in operating system, but are using caused by
differences in the hardware. The diskette drive on one system is
probably aligned slightly differently than that on the other.


--
Ken Blake
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"D. Kelly" > wrote in message
...
> 08/11/03
>
> Have new (1-week old)Compact Lap-top running Windows XP
> Prof. Home Ed. and Microsoft Office XP Professional 2002.
>
> Trying to transfer Office files back and forth to my older
> Compact Lap-top running Windows-98 Updated, and Office
> upgraded to Office XP Professional 2002.
>
> Systems won't recognize or read each other's floppy's.
> Floppy's lock-up each others disk drives.
>
> Is there an inexpensive solution?
>
> Is there no DOS on the Windows XP Home Ed. such that I can
> go to the Hard Drive and create a directory into which I
> could dump the application programs from the older
> computer and at least have compatible environments on both?
>
> Thanks,
>