On Thursday, January 20, 2005, at 06:07 PM, Fluxstringer wrote:
And yes it is a bad floppy. But I was distressed when my Zip 100 formatted on a PC was not readable on my 9600.
That could well be one or the other ZIp drive out of alignment, or as simple as the PC Exchange extension being disabled? If you just formatted the Zip drive in the PC, there's little chance you did it as NTFS; you have to know what you're doing and go out of the way to do it, since it requires (iirc) using the command-line format command.
Format a Zip disk as MS-DOS in your Mac and see if the PC reads it. If not, then one or the other of your drives (or both) are out of alignment.
XP seems to fill floppies with some folders of its own in addition to the mac os folders that PC formatting on the Mac adds.
What folders? It shouldn't! A formatted floppy on XP ends up with nothing on the disk...It's OS X systems that are adding all sorts of hidden files and folders, like .DS_Store and a . file for each file on the disk.
So floppies
are more for Mac to PC transfers and worthless for PC to Mac ( we are talking about XP here).
Something else is going on here.
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