windows office: it is to low for your computer|||Ive had that problem...sometimes disks made on my computer wont read in other computers, whether they are running the same system or not....my son suggested that perhaps Windows 2000 uses the NTFS format as opposed to 98's FAT format|||coz they hv diff.file format and the compatibility is not fitted.|||ok so none of the answer above are correct or even close. First off you mean to say why do disk formatted on my Windows 2000 PC fail to read on my Windows98 PC? The main reason for this is the heads on the two PC's are just far enough out of alignment that they cannot read each others disk. Say the 2K PC's head are 10% out of alignment to the right of the floppy tracks it can read and write it's own disk fine but your 98 PC's heads are 10% out of aligment to the left yet it can read and write it's own disk but when going between PC's you get a 20% difference and that's to much for the drive to handle. That's a very rough and certainly not technical reason you have the problem. The solution is to not use floppies and to use either network or flash drives. Floppies are just about useless at this point.|||If you have access to both computers, take the floppy drive from the win98 machine and install it on the win2k machine. Then you should be able to read the disks if alignment is the actual issue.