Erasing floppy discs

[Barb]

Does anyone know how to erase floppy discs in Windows XP
Home Edition? I used to be able to erase in Win. 98.

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Right click the floppy drive in Windows Explorer and select Format.

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"Barb" > wrote in message
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> Does anyone know how to erase floppy discs in Windows XP
> Home Edition? I used to be able to erase in Win. 98.

[Ken Blake]

In , Barb wrote:

> Does anyone know how to erase floppy discs in Windows XP
> Home Edition? I used to be able to erase in Win. 98.


It's not very different in XP. Select all the files (Ctrl-A) and
press the delete key.

Or just reformat the floppy (right-click and choose format).

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[Walter Clayton]

Or alternatively...

start->run->cmd [end]
format a: [enter]

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"Barb" > wrote in message
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> Does anyone know how to erase floppy discs in Windows XP
> Home Edition? I used to be able to erase in Win. 98.

[Len Segal]

Barb,

Since you are asking about "erasing" instead of Formatting, I would take a
different approach.

I use a bulk eraser purchased from Radio Shack. It is intended to erase
video tapes, but I use it on all floppies, then I do a Format as described
by others.

Reason that I do this: I used to recycle all those AOL disks that I received
in unsolicited SnailMail and one day my AV program discovered a virus on the
AOL diskette that I had simply reformatted. Turns out that some viruses will
not be destroyed by a simple reformat (true of HDDs too, just more difficult
to resolve) and thus totally destroying all file structures with a bulk
eraser takes care of this potential hazard.

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"Barb" > wrote in message
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> Does anyone know how to erase floppy discs in Windows XP
> Home Edition? I used to be able to erase in Win. 98.


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