Originally posted here by Chuck56
I switched my XP machine to NTFS from FAT32 and promptly lost my floppy disc capability, so keep that in mind. I removed the driver and reloaded it several times and still no effect. All I get is a box saying the floppy disc is not formatted and do I want to format. If I put in an empty disc and click yes, it tells me it can't format.

Why do I still use a floppy? Most of the places I deal with want the work on floppy disc. Fortunately it's also saved to CD. Just something to consider before switching from FAT to NTFS. I gather from checking various Windows forums that I'm not the only one this has happened to.
I'm not entirely sure this makes sense as the floppy disc file system does not, and will never use NTFS.
I have a seven year old floppy disk (created with MS/DOS - no type of Windows whatsover!), which can still be read by my WinXP system which is using NTFS for its hard drives.

Perhaps your floppy is getting rather old - like any magnetic media, as the information stored on it can get corrupted with time.

I'm sure this isn't a driver problem as almost everything uses the default MS driver.