It has become common problem in my office. Some floppies do not open in Windows XP and it shows error, Cyclic Redundancy check error, what does it mean ? If I use the same floppy on another computer having windows '98 it opens all the files and sometimes some of the files.

The same floppy when formated with windows XP starts working, which were showing the error earlier.

your files were corrupted when you copied them from the computer hard drive or netowrk drive to the flopy disk..there no way to fix it apart from recoping

well... this is something interesting, someone is still using floppy... I was sure that floppy is dead thign while ago..

Anyway you may have a faulty diskette, and maybe the whole floppy disc reader is faulty... try to format that diskette, and run a scandisk on it, to se if it's faulty, if it's ok, then you probably got faulty floppy disc reader on that xp-computer, buy a new one - it's cheap - about 8-10$, maybe less...

Format floppy, save in RTF, I don't know the depth of the problem...how bout just saving your documents on email as an attachment so they can be opened or sent on or to any computer (RTF format) no probs involved. Lol if that solution seems childish then buy cd burners for all of your computers and use CD-RW's. Floppy's cannot be reliable anymore.

This has always been a problem when taking a disk formatted in an earlier windows to a newer windows. Sometimes the newer windows just won't read the formatting correctly. As far as I can tell, the only solution is to backup the disk's files and then format on WinXP, then restore the files.

try to get Knoppix, run it and use KFloppy format it.


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haha, well i use floppy because its easy and most computers "usually" read them its better than having to search for a usb port for a those flash disks. but floppy disks are very unreliable and they can be damaged easily.

I hardly use floppy disks nowadays since the USB flash memory drives are becoming more common (not to mention getting smaller AND holding more space). If all else fails, reformat the floppy. Otherwise, I wonder if copying the files from floppy to the HD while in DOS mode is an another option (before reformatting).

My opinion is that the machine with XP needs a new floppy. it's ceap to replace, but USB drives are so cheap, with the amount of disks you'll be using, they break so fast, it'd be cheaper to get even some old small flash disk.