3.5" floppy disk troubleshooting

[don wilkey]

my problem is with my floppy disk. i'm unable to open my
disk in ms word computers at local libraries i've been
using recently.
these two messages pop up everytime i try to open my disk;
"a: / ' is not recognized. it may not be formatted".

and " the floppy disk in drive A: is not formatted or has
been formatted for a Macintosh".

 

[Barry Wainwright]

my problem is with my floppy disk. i'm unable to open my
disk in ms word computers at local libraries i've been
using recently.
these two messages pop up everytime i try to open my disk;
"a: / ' is not recognized. it may not be formatted".

and " the floppy disk in drive A: is not formatted or has
been formatted for a Macintosh".

You don't state what OS version you are running - most later versions of the
OS had a drop down menu to select the format to use when you selected 'erase
disk' from one of the finder menus - choose the relevant MS-DOS format from
that menu. Then, save your word files to that disk (the mac can read those
formats quite happily). They should now be accessible on your Library
windows machines.