On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:05:39 -0500, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
I have WinXP Home SP3 on one machine and find that I am no longer able
to access FAT32-formatted thumb drives or FAT-formatted floppies: I can
read them on other systems, but this machine tells me they are unformatted.

Don't know what your problem with the thumb drive would be, but the
floppies are an easy case. Your floppy drives have gotten misaligned.
That happens quite often with floppies, and it's one the main reasons
nobody bothers with them anymore.


It's unlikely that that is the problem he is having with floppies. The
problem is almost certainly the media descriptor byte issue. Read here
for info on it: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=140060

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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