Formatting Floppy Disks Windows 7

Hey all,

I've bought an External floppy reader for my laptop (running windows 7), and the drive seems to be working fine, however for some reason it is saying that my Disks need formatting, but when I try to format them it doesn't work. Anyone know why/how to fix it? I'm running a 2000 Classic and the drive/disks work fine on the MPC...

Cheers

Yeah these are brand new disks, fresh out the box and never even been put into the MPC. I'm trying to put some samples I have stored on the computer onto the disk but I can't even access the disk, as it says it needs formatting, then when I try to format it, a window pops up saying it was unable to complete the format.

Thanks anyway for the advice
peace

usb floppy drives are pretty different from their old-school, built in couterparts. some stuff just won't work on them.

also, windows 7 is a few generations removed from dos + floppies, so might not have all the technology you need.

if you need google-food, look up 'windows 7 format floppy fat'.

honestly the best thing you can do is find an old beater computer with a floppy drive, put xp on it, and then just xfer files from there.

that or look into getting a card reader. there is a thread in the 2k/xl section called 'recommended card readers' or something and on the last few pages they finally found one .

Lampdog wrote:Stick to using ONLY 8 character filenames.

Lampdog wrote:Stick to using ONLY 8 character filenames.

double quoting for double impact
if you name your files anything over 8 characters, you run the risk of losing your samples just like *poof*.