Computer does not open a floppy disk. He continues to say that they need to get in shape

my machine does not open a floppy disk.  He continues to say that they need to be formatted (even brand new ones that really don't need). so I told him to get in shape. within 30-45 seconds, a screen appears and tells me that the disk cannot be formatted.  There is no help menu or solution for this that I can find anywhere. I run Win XP Home Edition with Service Pack 3. the format screen shows my NTFS file system and the disk is listed in RAW format, but there is no way to change this. Help!  Lots of info on those records that must be transferred to a more modern storage unit.

Try to get data from old floppy disks can be a nightmare.  For starters, the magnetic media is not particularly stable and the disk may simply have deteriorated.

More likely, however, that you use in the problem of the "media descriptor block.

See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309623&Product=winxp and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140060/en-%20us
There seems to be at least 3 solutions of workarounds for this problem:

1. find a Win95 computer with a floppy drive and use it to read the data and transfer it to support more modern.

2. use a disk sector editor as described in 140060 KB (which may or may not work, depending on whether your current disk can read the disc even if Windows allows it to try)

3 install the driver of 'mode 3' discussed in the following thread: http://tinyurl.com/cs5a5rp (Yes, viaarena link still works).

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