First post, by ocdmonkey
So I have an old 5.25 inch floppy drive that used to work, I used it for a bunch of backup stuff (using it in an old XP machine to backup IBM PC formatted disks, and using a Kryoflux for C64 disks) and I was hoping to use it to write some disks to use with my newly acquired 5160, but I've tried the drive with 3 different computers and it doesn't work in different ways on each one. The disks were tested working on the 5160, and most of them were not formatted on that machine, rather formatted on a PC jr my dad used to have a long time ago.
My XP build: It can sometimes read disks, but typically won't (will typically tell me the disk is unformatted). It will not format blank disks (with Winimage, since XP seems unable to format 5.25 in disks), and writing to disks is even more of a hit-or-miss as reading. It will not boot from a DOS 3.0 floppy disk.
My 98 build: It seems to always be able to read the disks, but when trying to copy files over I get a blue screen telling me it was unable to write to the disk, which I can press any key to dismiss, and it continually comes back. Afterwards, the files appear to have been copied, but I didn't do much testing past that (I didn't trust that they were properly copied). It will not boot from a DOS 3.0 floppy disk.
My HP Vectra: It will boot from my DOS 3.0 disk, but trying to access the basic program on the disc just freezes the computer (I can access the program on the 5160).
So, basically, any ideas on what might be going wrong?