Thanks nihil and darkes. I'm at a loss then concerning my problem. This computer is less than a year old and the floppy drive worked perfectly up to the moment I changed from FAT32 to NTFS. I went to several Windows sites and basically they all said that the floppy drive was faulty. Then, I stumbled on several sites where people were complaining that their floppy disc drive stopped reading when they switched to XP. Well, I had XP running in FAT32 and all was okay. I should have left it running under FAT. It is apparently an XP issue that M$ won't correct because Bill doesn't think floppy discs are needed any more.