Oddity: USB Floppy under Windows7

Mar 11, 2018 2 Replies

I need to generate floppy disks to communicate with a legacy system. So I have a USB floppy drive - works fine. I can read and write files under Windows Explorer but I can't format new floppies - the Format facility reports that the floppy is write protected (which it isn't )



HOWEVER, if I pop off to the command prompt and format the floppy it works fine - very odd.



So I have a solution but would like to know WHY Win7 Pro 32 bit won't format floppy discs despite having the facility built in - very odd !



Andrew


I'm guessing that this is because windows is not reading the status of the write protect properly.

However in a similar vein, Windows 10 cannot format sticks to fat 32 in windows, but can in the command prompt. Obviously the people doing one bit of windows know more about what they are doing.

Brian

It happens that Brian Gaff formulated :

Sorry Brian, but my Windows 10 64 bit does format fat 32 fine. I have just done it, to confirm.

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