Not reading floppy disks

[novice]

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Hi,

Each time I insert a floppy, I get the following
message: "The disk in Drive A is not formatted. Do you
want to reformat it now?".

This happens on each disk, and they work on other PC's.
Any idea what has gone wrong and what I need to do to
repair it?

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Your floppy drive may need cleaning or could be out of alignment. Make a DOS
startup disk on one of the other computers and see if you can boot from it.
If not there is a hardware problem. If you can and have no trouble reading
it in DOS there is a problem in XP.

"Novice" <michelp@samandjon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:062d01c48b45$c357ec20$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Each time I insert a floppy, I get the following
> message: "The disk in Drive A is not formatted. Do you
> want to reformat it now?".
>
> This happens on each disk, and they work on other PC's.
> Any idea what has gone wrong and what I need to do to
> repair it?