3.5 in floppy drive

I run an older Gateway under Windows 98 and a newer Dell under XP. I use
either a flash drive or floppies to transfer data from one to the other. The
flash works OK, but the drive on the Dell has refused to recognize a disk
from the Gateway. (1) Is it the fault of incompatability of the OS's? (2)
Is it likely that either the controller or the disk drive have failed?
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DeepSea

And you Windows Update question is...?

DeepSea wrote:
> I run an older Gateway under Windows 98 and a newer Dell under XP. I use
> either a flash drive or floppies to transfer data from one to the other.
> The flash works OK, but the drive on the Dell has refused to recognize a
> disk from the Gateway. (1) Is it the fault of incompatability of the
> OS's?
> (2) Is it likely that either the controller or the disk drive have failed?

"DeepSea" <> wrote in message
news:CB24575B-29FC-4F67-A469-...
> (1) Is it the fault of incompatability of the OS's? (2)
> Is it likely that either the controller or the disk drive have failed?

Don't know but I'm 100% sure you're in the wrong group.

Perhaps read: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140060
Floppy Disk is Not Accessible, Not Formatted, or Not Recognized by Windows

Otherwise post to a more appropriate NG.


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"DeepSea" wrote:

> I run an older Gateway under Windows 98 and a newer Dell under XP. I use
> either a flash drive or floppies to transfer data from one to the other. The
> flash works OK, but the drive on the Dell has refused to recognize a disk
> from the Gateway. (1) Is it the fault of incompatability of the OS's? (2)
> Is it likely that either the controller or the disk drive have failed?
> --
> DeepSea