i need to install drivers but i cant format my floppy disk

This would use the whole floppy disk with no partitioning, probably the same as gparted would do, I'm not sure.

If your floppy drive is /dev/fd0 then this command should make an ext2 filesystem on the floppy drive, using ext2 and automagically figuring out the other parameters (see man mke2fs for all the options). Or, you can use the terminal tools yourself, using mkfs.ext2 (alias to mke2fs). I strongly prefer gparted, gives more options and tells you more details on what it does, Disks may work, but seems more like a black-box 'click and hope' solution. This is why I suspect that XP cannot read or mount non NTFS file systems.For a pretty graphical way to do it, install/use gparted or even gnome-disk-utility ('Disks'). Of interest is that when I boot the PC with the XP disk and enter the recovery console I can access the floppy drive and there are no errors. I tried streaming the drivers to a custom XP cd but the installation program claims that the drivers are corrupt…unlikely as I downloaded then off the website probably another post anyway. I can’t however because I can’t copy the drivers to the 3.5″ floppy. I need to access the floppy drive to load on some SATA drivers so that I can reinstall windows. Does anybody know of a bug within XP SP2 that prevents you accessing non NTFS file systems and is there a work around. I have also noticed that I cannot access flash drives that have not been formatted with the NTFS file system. As soon as I boot back into XP though I cannot access the disk. Surprise surprise I can access floppy disks and write to them.

To be complete I have checked that the disk drive works in a linux machine and I have also checked that I can access disks from the XP machine using a knoppix live disk.

Once the process completes I then try and access my nelwy formatted floppy and windows says that the disk is not accessable as it does not have a valid file system. I have complied and windows has began the format process. I am trying to get a flopy disk drive to work within windows XP SP2 with all the updates installed….Everytime I try and do anything with regards to the disk Windows claims that the disk is unformatted and would I like to format it now.

I need to install drivers but i cant format my floppy disk