if you can format in dos but not Win 2K/XP you ran into a well known bug.

"HKEK" wrote in message
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| My floppy drive can read disks just fine but it always shows a failure
| whenever I attempt to write to a floppy disk. I have swapped drives
| (using one that I know works on my other computer) but I get the same
| result. Does this indicate a failure of the motherboard/onboard
| controller? What are the other possibilities? -- Thanks in advance for
| any help.