The weird thing is; it can tell when there's NO disk (it won't update to show, but it also won't let me even attempt to format), and win8 was able to reload just by right clicking.
I don't know a...

I got myself a USB based floppy disk drive for my PC, so I could put my DOSBOX games and MIDIs on actual floppies.

The issue I'm having is that the disks don't read when I switch them out. In...