Cannot get the floppy drive to work.

Well, maybe noone here will want to address this issue, but I really need an answer that I use the files mentioned below in my profession. Any help would be appreciated. And if I posted this in the wrong place, sorry, this is the first time I used these forums and didn't really know where to post. 

OK, I know this floppy are are outdated, but I have a bunch of files that I created years ago when the diskette was everything you had.

I had a disk in my computer that I was using and one day I tried to open some files in the floppy drive and it says that the disk has not been formatted and I wanted to format the IDE drive.

I got a new floppy disk and it says the same thing. I tried to format it and received a message that said Windows cannot format the drive.

So, I thought that maybe the old IDE floppy drive had gone belly up. I ordered a new floppy USB of TigerDirect drive and installed. It does the same thing.

Can someone help me get this floppy drive so that I can access work files.

I have a HP Compaq dc7600 form small computer running XP Pro SP 3. The floppy drive I ordered is an external USB floppy drive PowerUp G54-8016.

I have a Zip USB drive and it works.

Any help would be appreciated.

I don't know why the IDE floppy drive was working and then quit, and now the new floppy drive will not work.

Hi kemperhills,

·          Is it possible to check if the floppies are still good?

·          The diskette was made read-only?

According to this Microsoft article this could happen because the disks are bad:

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/140060

Was there a kind of switch on it? If so have them try to change the switch and try again.

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/309623

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