I have 88 3.5'' double sided, high density, 1.44Mb floppy disks. I'm trying to read or format from an USB Floppy Drive in Windows 10 and a message appears saying:
A:\ is not accessible. The disk media is not recognized, it may not be formatted.
I tried in a old PC with Windows XP Professional and 2 things happened:
1- If I try to read them from the internal Floppy Drive, Windows says: Insert a disk in A:\.
2- If I try to read them from the USB Floppy drive, Windows says: The disk media is not recognized, it may not be formatted. Do you want to format it now? - I click Yes and proceed to the window with all the format settings, click Format and Windows says: Windows could not format drive.
I've read that if the floppy disks were formatted on MS-DOS or Win95 it will only work on those systems.
Being that the case, I wanted to install Win95 on the old PC and use it to format all floppy disks. But, the CD drive that old PC has is not working anymore. I can't afford to buy a another. So, the question: if I install a Virtual Machine with Win95 in my Win10 PC will I be able to read and write to the USB Floppy Drive? And put Win95 in some floppies to install that OS in the old PC?
It's a two lines question but I wrote as much info as I could for you to give me other ideas/solutions if possible.
A:\ is not accessible. The disk media is not recognized, it may not be formatted.
I tried in a old PC with Windows XP Professional and 2 things happened:
1- If I try to read them from the internal Floppy Drive, Windows says: Insert a disk in A:\.
2- If I try to read them from the USB Floppy drive, Windows says: The disk media is not recognized, it may not be formatted. Do you want to format it now? - I click Yes and proceed to the window with all the format settings, click Format and Windows says: Windows could not format drive.
I've read that if the floppy disks were formatted on MS-DOS or Win95 it will only work on those systems.
Being that the case, I wanted to install Win95 on the old PC and use it to format all floppy disks. But, the CD drive that old PC has is not working anymore. I can't afford to buy a another. So, the question: if I install a Virtual Machine with Win95 in my Win10 PC will I be able to read and write to the USB Floppy Drive? And put Win95 in some floppies to install that OS in the old PC?
It's a two lines question but I wrote as much info as I could for you to give me other ideas/solutions if possible.
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