Can't read floppy disks

Reading jpg files

I just bought got a new Dell 4300 computer with windows xp and I have a Sony MVC95 camera and having problem with some of the floppies viewing them. It either just has an hourglass for ever or ask if I want to format. It has ruined about 10 floppies now. and some of the pictures that I have redone won't read at all and it says fat32. What can I do? I had win 98 before and used adobe photo deluxe3.0 to edited some of the photos and I can's use it now. Could that be part of the problem?
Thanks.

 

I assume your floppies is the 3 1/2 inch ones? Will your computer read and write to any floppy disk?

 

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Yes, it writes to floppies just fine. In fact when reading the floppies it may read one and not the other. I have ruined about 15 floppies. One thing I was use to the other computer and when you end now that was it, but on the new computer it doesn't save in which I felled to read.
Mary

 

I may be way off base here, but I'm assuming that you're speaking of an entirely new computer reading disks written by your old machine?

I'm afraid I can't offer a solution but perhaps an explanation.
On older machines, the read/write head of the disk-drive can get misaligned - perhaps only as much as tenth of an inch, which means that it reads and writes data next to where the data was supposed to go. so when you try to use the disk in another computer it won't find the data, and therefore think the disk isn't formatted.
So in effect it might not be the new machine destroying your disks, but your old machine that's "misplacing" the information on the disks.

HTH

 

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Ok, i understand now. My luck. Thank you.

 

Re floopies from 98 os

The reason why you can not read your windows 98 floppies, is that you have used compression on them,it seems xp does not have diskspace which is what causes the prob, having xp running on fat 32 does not help either..there is no diskspace program on xp to run 98 floppies,so your old floppies are useless!!
Yahoo...

 

Thank you. I can read some of them ,but not all of them.

 

The floppies you say are bad, can you format them with your camera?

Your original floppies all worked fine in the camera and on the old machine? They will not work all the time on the new machine?

I believe you said some of your floppies that were written on the new machine at times do not read all the time?

If all this is true you have a bad floppie drive.

I have the same Sony camera and my floppies work fine in XP.

Try you "bad" floppies in someone elses machine to see if they are indeed bad.

Let me know.

 

them diskettes

I know what ya mean here. I run three OS' win98se, winme, winxp. These disks formated in old win98 work great, in '98!! Disks formated in winxp or me don't always work in win98! My solution has been to been to format at the command prompt, thinking the drives timing in winxp is diff then in win98? Works better anyways them ain't really ruined disks as long as they can be re-formated