Thanks again for looking at my problem. I am a little confused, in your first post you said that you did use ETCedit on a WinXP machine. But if you are using an Expression
console you would not be using ETCedit as an offline editor.
I am not sure what you mean by compression and using a tighter compression on a more modern machine. There is no compression involved, perhaps you are thinking of the different file sustems used like FAT or NTFS? Either way a floppy's file
system is still plain old FAT and can be read by any other windows or
dos based OS.
You had a great idea to try and copy the file over manualy, the problem is that the Microvision uses a non-standard format to save data and so the disk cannot be read by the OS. One of the functions of ETCedit is to allow you to read the disk at all, so I can't really do that either.
I know on the newer
ETC boards you can read the floppy just like any other floppy, but unfortunately in my case the OS just thinks the floppy is damaged because it can't recognize it at all.
I have done quite a few searches on what changed between WIndows98 and Win2k as far as how it deals with floppies and I can't really discover anything. It could have something to do with the way WIn2k and XP try to emulate a
DOS environment. Oh well, I will keep looking. I have a workaround by keeping my dual boot
system it just seems like a waste to have it set up to run one program that I use only once a month or so.
Thanks for all of your input