That problem could be a few things like the floppy drive not 
recognizing the floppy format or the op.
Some of the floppy disks are not standard 1.44, they are 2mb commercial disks.
Try it on a system with xp and a floppy drive if you can find one on 
these new boxes.

At 03:10 PM 10/14/2007, you wrote:
>Hi, Marie's friend here. So guys, are you saying that Windows XP doesn't
>support fat12? Or if it does it has limitations? I'm asking this as I tried
>to use another friend of mine's USB floppy drive, and tried to load a
>magazine off one of the disks and Windows XP Home SP2 refused to read the
>disk and claims that it needs reformatting, but since this is a disk
>obtained from the RNIB I didn't go ahead and reformat. Thanks in advance for
>the help.
>Chris Hallsworth
>BrailleNote mPower user
>Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Blind Sea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 7:33 PM
>Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] copy something from a floppy disk to desk top
>andback
>
>
>Hi Marie,
>This is a limitationo in fAT12 (the file system used in flopy disks). FAT12,
>unlike FAT16 and FAT32, does not allow creation of new folders on floppy
>disks. You best alternative is to rename the file itself that you are trying
>to copy.
>Cheers,
>Joseph
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "marie peake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:47 PM
>Subject: [JAWS-Users] copy something from a floppy disk to desk top and back
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> > hi list
> >
> > i am having a slight problem.  when i copy the thing from the froppy disk
> > to the desk top and back to the froppy and i try and work on the unit.  i
> > can rename the unit 1 as my first and last name but when i go to creat a
> > sob folder inside the folder it will not let me do it.
> >
> > from marie
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