It is absolutely a Windows 7 bug. I have three computers, all with AMD
processors, that run Vista 32 and 64 bit with no problems.
Upon doing a clean install of Windows 7 RC1, the problem of not being able
to do a full format of a floppy appears. I can change the floppy drive and
cable with no change in the result. As someone said earlier, I can do a
quick format, and it appears to work, but the floppy is corrupted. I can
boot any of these machines from a Windows 98 floppy and run the format B:
/F:1.44 command on any of the floppies that failed on Windows 7.
It is not a hardware problem. It is a Microsoft bug. I don't think it is
rare.
Just to see if the problem was caused by an AMD bug, I built an Intel system
with an i7 820 and an MSI P55 GD65 motherboard. It worked once, or appeared
to work, and so I thought I had discovered evidence for the problem
belonging to AMD. A few days later I tried it again and it did not work. I
proceeded to uninstall all the drivers and apps that I had installed in the
meantime, and that did not help. So, I wiped the drive and installed Windows
7 64bit again. Again the floppy will not format. It will appear to do a
quick format, but it does not do it correctly, and the floppy is corrupted.
I am tired of testing. So, whether anyone has reported the bug to Microsoft
does not mean a thing to me. Maybe that is because it is exceedingly
difficult to report anything to Microsoft? Maybe no one at Microsoft has a
floppy drive on their computers? Maybe they all threw away all of their
floppies? Maybe they think we are all crazy?
I know that most people don't think much of people that still use floppies,
but I find it very hard to write the contents of the flash drive on the
outside of the thing. I own several, and they are nice, they hold a lot of
data, they fit into my pocket, but where do I put the label on them? Yes, I
expect some wise-guy crack about that, but what I really would like is for
Microsoft to see if they can replicate this problem and fix it. It is
obviously a regression from Vista, and makes Microsoft look really
incompetent. Unless Microsoft is trying to help with the killing of the
floppy. A floppy is very useful when working on computers running Windows XP
or earlier. It looks like XP will be with us for a long time.
"Bobby Johnson" <> wrote in message
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> Since your problem appears to be rather rare I would not expect Microsoft
> to "fix" something that really doesn't seems to be broken. I frequent the
> Win 7 forum over at TechNet and I have never seen a post about floppy
> formatting problems.
>
> I think your problem is something with your hardware or a problem with one
> or more system files.
>
>
> LDJ wrote:
>>
>> What you did, is what I can't do, or rather what can't be done with my
>> system, and the Windows 7 64bit OS / Gigabyte MB with AMD 790GX chipset
>> combination.
>>
>> I can't format a floppy disk, without getting errors, and thus formatting
>> with the option of making a boot diskette can't be done.
>>
>> Quick formatting a floppy disk can be done, however the formatting
>> process ends up with bad disks, although the process shows a Finished
>> message.
>>
>> I have a second PC, that has a Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 motherboard with an
>> AMD 790X + SB600 Chipset, and a Phenom 9600 CPU. It is running the Vista
>> Home Premium 64bit version. It has been running without issues for almost
>> 2 years, and I have never seen any problems regarding the TLB (Transition
>> Lookaside Buffer) errata. :-) Formatting a floppy disk with the second PC
>> doesn't give any problems.
>>
>> Bye the way, I am one of the persons that have been pleased with Windows
>> Vista. People in this newsgroup has provided a lot of solutions for
>> setting up the OS.
>>
>> I just read that there will be a Windows 7 Service Pack 1 in 2010. I hope
>> that it will bring a fix for the issue.
>>
>> Link: http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16243/1/
>>
>> I wonder how the C: drive can be read, in a DOS session, booted from a
>> floppy drive. I guess it's a ramdrive that has been made when the system
>> booted with a Windows start diskette?
>>
>> I haven't seen a "combination" drive, with both 5.25" and 3.5" :-)
>> before, but I have a 5.25" 360kb/1.2mb drive combination on the loft.
>> Could come handy if I ever want to restore the PCTools backups I did way
>> back, from the 5.25" diskettes that is also on the loft. ROTFL
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> LDJ
>>
>>
>>
>>
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