Microsoft KB Archive/96756

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MS-DOS Fails to Detect Floppy Disk Change

Article ID: 96756

Article Last Modified on 11/23/1999



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.21 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Standard Edition



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SYMPTOMS

MS-DOS does not recognize when a floppy disk has been changed in your floppy disk drive.

CAUSE

This problem occurs when the disk does not have a volume identification (ID). The following disks may have this problem:

  • Disks formatted with MS-DOS version 3.x
  • Disks formatted with Symantec Norton Safe Format (SF)
  • Pre-formatted disks

If the disk does not have a volume ID, the MS-DOS media-change logic cannot detect the disk change.


Additional query words: 6.22 6.00 6.20 change line support same file no list changes

Keywords: KB96756