The Network guys here just tell us that the disks should have been re-formatted before use to make them compatable with NT.
Excuse ME?!
Now this really p**ses me off, I work with NT (and 2000, Netware, blah, blah) networks every single day and I REALLY HATE IT when so called techies come out with b*ll!!!! like that.
The upshot of formatting a disk on NT is that it will have a slightly different boot sector. You can see this if you take a pre-formatted disk and leave it in the floppy drive when you turn the PC on.
The PC will give you an error message of 'Non system disk'.
Format that disk on a Windows NT box and leave it in the drive - This time the error message is 'NTLDR cannot be found'.
At the end of the day the disk is still in a FAT 12 format.
The problem could be several things, Floppy disks have a high failure rate, Leaving them on the PC will kill them (magnetic fields), a slight knock or thump can kill them.
The failure rate for floppies is 1 in 10.
25f's post covers the rest of it very nicely, The only thing I'll add is that if you have access to a windows 2000 machine invest in a pen drive. (
http://www.autdirect.co.uk/acatalog/...et_Drives.html)
This sexy devices can take up to 252MB of data in something that's the size of a pen and weigh next to nothing.
I've been using one for a year and have binned all my floppies!
Gary.