I can't have external floppy drive to work error "diskette must be formatted before use"

Origignal title: problems with EXTERNAL FLOPPY DRIVE

I have a floppy drive external that I don't use that occasionally (supporting my sewing machine) - I use it to transfer files digitiezed to my sewing machine.  It worked fine until after a recent Ms updates, now I can not work at all and I tried to reinstall the current drivers and I get an error message that the floppy drive must be formatted before using, I try to format it and it errors and says it can not be formatted.  If the device is recognized, but there seems to be a problem with the communication and the operating system.  I know WIN7 users encounter the same problem, but I have Vista...  Help, please!

Hi Sylvia,.

Thanks for choosing Microsoft Community!

You have reached the right forum. Let us work as a team and try to solve this problem.

If I understand correctly, the external floppy drive does not work on the Windows Vista-based computer.

We defer the following methods:

 

Method 1: Run the following fix - it:

Hardware devices do not work or are not detected in Windows:

http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/hardware_device_problems/en-us

 

Method 2: Check drive for errors.

Check your hard drive for errors:

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors

 

Important: Running chkdsk on the drive if bad sectors are found on the disk hard when chkdsk attempts to repair this area if all available on which data can be lost.

Hope the helps of information. Don't answer if you need assistance, we will be happy to help you.

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