Floppy disk problem (by 2 users)

This article has the fix and link to the drivers, I have used on several
machines now and works perfect.

At our school we are having all the floppy problems mentioned in this NG.The
only one that is 100% reproducable is this: take a floppy, format it
inWin9x, and put files on it.  Stick it in an XP PC and select "Copy
Disk"from the A: drive context menu.  We get errors nearly 100% of the time.
Ifound the following fix
at:http://discuss.extremetech.com /n/mb/display.asp?webtag=extre metech&ms...
301.1 posted by someone called cluberti.  The drivers he mentions work,
butthey leave a phantom B: 5.25 drive that needs to be
disabled.---------------------­------------------------------­----------------
------------------------------­----I looked at everything I could find, and
everything technically SHOULD bethe same in the way Windows 98 and Windows
XP format and access floppydiskettes (FAT12, 512bytes/sector, etc).  And
what did I find?  As usual,things have changed (and you wouldn't know it
unless you dug deep).  Thefollowing is what I found (and how I fixed it -
get this information OUTTHERE): After beating my head against the wall for a
few weeks and polling everyoneI knew personally that was running Windows XP,
I found that quite a few ofus had this problem - format and/or use a floppy
in XP, it doesn't work inWin98 (and sometimes Windows 2000 too).  Format
and/or use a floppy inWindows 95, 98, ME, NT, or 2000, it no longer works in
XP (even if it workedbefore).  It seemed that the brand name PC's had this
problem lessfrequently than a white box machine, but they were not immune
either -especially Compaq PC's.  So, I dug around google groups for a while,
andfound LOTS of people complaining of this particular problem.  However,
quitea few searches on Microsoft's site about floppies, corruption, and
WindowsXP turned up absolutely nothing of value. After LOTS of digging, I
did find this interesting Microsoft Q
article(http://support.microsoft.com/d efault.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q309 623)
that I hadoriginally perused and thought of no use.  I read it again, very
CAREFULLY,and read it over a few times more to make sure what I was reading
was reallythere.  If you're interested, read it in all it's glory on the
Microsoftsite and be amazed - then come back (open a new tab or window! :O)
here forthe fix. For those of you not inclined to visit Microsoft.com (and
you know who youare ;O), here's the interesting tidbit (and the root of the
problem): "Windows XP supports formatting only the 1.44MB disk format.
Three-modefloppy drives (drives that are capable of reading/writing with
720KB, 1.2MBand 1.44MB 3.5" disks) requires special driver support, and
support for thisfeature is not inclu