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Old December 31, 2009, 04:13 PM
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Default Floppy Drive cannot format Disks
when I put in some old floppys it asks to format.
When I click format, windows comes unresponding and it restarts the explorer.

im running on windows 7 64 bit

and dont ask why im still using floppys lol
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Old December 31, 2009, 04:37 PM
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Try running/formatting floppy in virtual xp mode if you have pro or ultimate. Virtual xp mode is the only way I could get my old scanner working...it works great this way
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