- 720kb floppy disk problem
- Posted by Duke on April 27th, 2006
I have an expensive MIDI keyboard that uses 720KB floppies. When ever I try
to access one of these disks with my PC, it crashes (Blue Screen) I tried
reloading floppy driver and tried a new drive. Any ideas?
- Posted by Yves Leclerc on April 27th, 2006
On 27/04/2006 Duke <Duke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Microsoft has officially remove 720LB floppy support from XP "format." I am
not certain about any different "read" support.
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- Posted by Carey Frisch [MVP] on April 27th, 2006
Open your BIOS and see if you have a
floppy drive settings for a 720kb floppy
drive. If you do, enabled it.
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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
"Duke" wrote:
- Posted by Duke on April 27th, 2006
I know you can't format 720k disks, but I'm pretty sure your supposed to be
able to read them and write them. I guess I'll have to get and old WIN98
machine to work with my MIDI's.
"Yves Leclerc" wrote:
- Posted by Wesley Vogel on April 27th, 2006
720 kilobyte (KB) 3.5" floppy disk (read, write only)
Floppy Disk Formats That Are Supported in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309623
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:%23DM87njaGHA.508@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,
Yves Leclerc <yvesleclercNOSPAM@sympatico.ca> hunted and pecked:
- Posted by Ghostrider on April 27th, 2006
Duke wrote:
It really takes a first-class 1.44 MB floppy disk drive to
read the Double-Density 720 KB diskettes. If the FDD is not
a 1.44 MB TEAC (if there are no true 720 KB ones), then the
quality might not be good enough. The age and condition of
the 720 KB drive on the MIDI keyboard will also be factors
in the ability for diskettes made in it to be read.
- Posted by Plato on April 29th, 2006
=?Utf-8?B?RHVrZQ==?= wrote:
XP doesn't like 720s. Use a win98 pc.
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