Damaged Disks and XP

I've only just noticed this, but for some reason if a disk has any damage at all, Windows XP in its infinite wisdom announces that it's not formatted. The disks that I used had a few damaged clusters and lost sectors, not too big a deal, and they work just fine with other versions of Windows. Damn XP, now I have two boxes of disks to repair just to get them to work. Does anyone know why it does this???

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Better to be in denial than to be human.

Bill Gates understands binary: his company is number one, and his customers are all zeros.

Prolly has something to do with XP being the only version that does not necessarily need a 3.5 to reformat.

If your PC can boot from the cd at all (setup via the bios) you can reformat with the XP disk alone.

perhaps it is telling us that we no longer need a 3.5.

shrugs

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.... No ... More likely it's because it's based on NT, which is more strict then other versions of Windows.

Bad sectors are actually important. I imagine that older versions of Windows just read small pieces at a time while XP, may, have to map the entire disc into memory (This is more secure for obvious reasons).

But I could be wrong. Case and point: Fix the bad sectors with some utility somewhere, I'm sure you can find one.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Fixed all the damaged clusters and most of the lost sectors with scandisk, there's still some bad sectors (always sector 7), it works now.

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Better to be in denial than to be human.

Bill Gates understands binary: his company is number one, and his customers are all zeros.

could it be something to do with the FAT thingy. i'm sure that xp gave me the same error when i tried to use older discs after re-FATing. or it was possibly the other way around.

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You have Disk with WIX XP, what did you get a cracked copy? Win XP has never been sold of floppies.

What's really weird is that a disk that refuses to work on XP (because
of the disk not formatted error) works just fine on any other OS.

Seriously, who uses 3.5 inch floppies anymore? (Except the non-well endowed person :razz: )

/me looks at Orph to continue humour...

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Myrk- said:
Seriously, who uses 3.5 inch floppies anymore? (Except the non-well endowed person :razz: )

/me looks at Orph to continue humour...

HEY POOPCHUTE!!!

my new PC boots from the CD/DVD rom.. My winXP corp installed clean thankyou very much :smile:

besides, I have to many friends/family, who still have old PC's and sometimes I need a 3.5
I have yet to use mine, but.. at least I'll have one when I need it. Besides, why chance it, its only a few bucks new. :/

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I use floppies because they last longer than CDs. My DooM 1 disks have been sitting on top of a huge magnet for last ten years, and they still work just fine. As for my DooM 3 CDs - I knew I made a backup for a reason!

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Better to be in denial than to be human.

Bill Gates understands binary: his company is number one, and his customers are all zeros.

lol @ Foxpup

Drop them a couple of times and you're done And I have CD-s
like... 5-6 yrs old, working like... damn! But most of the floppies
I've had, stopped functioning after ... 1 year? Although.. I never had
a CD writer so I had to use them for transporting data every sunday
from school to home for like 2 years! Oh... and then I finally managed
to burn a CD in school and from that point I started using discs to
transport data. But if you drop a floppy... be prepared for data loss :smile:

My recommendation: put your doom1 from floppies onto a CD. Put that CD somewhere... somewhere where you can't scratch it :smile:

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my floppy drive has never worked with my XP system, dunno why

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I have a pile of about 40 floppies on my desk for whenever I may need
them. Only about 10 of them actually work though, the rest I
recieve the foxpup error.

My case has one of those weird curvy floppy drive slots (so you dont actually see the drive, thers just a "mystery slot" the disks go in), the floppy drive is too far in because the screw holes on the case are weird, and the button for the special slot has fallen out. It hasnt been a problem.

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I still got 2 working Flightsimulator 2000 cd's, though they have been
used so much that they have an amazing amoutn of scratches. The cd box
they where in broke before the cd's itself:)

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