Solve : floppy drive - disk not formatted?

1.	Solve : floppy drive - disk not formatted?
Answer» Floppy drive consistently boots with win 98 BOOT disk but all other disks give Disk not formatted message. Replaced A drive and cable - same results. Floppy disks can be read on another machine before and after TRYING them on this machine. HOPE someone can help.ps I can boot from the emergency boot disk, change to drive c, and dir a: works FINE. I get a listing of the files on the boot diskette. When I put another disk in, I get a "data reading error drive a" . After aborting that task, i switch disks and again can do a dir listing of the boot disk.http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/fdd/errorsRead-c.html read more..fred masek....Perhaps it would help if you told us what it is your trying to do ...and what operating system are you using. please LET us know dl65

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