As the floppy works for Bads in safe mode I guess it works...
However, I've seen Bads 1 for a while in different forums, a kind of massive trouble period. (Floppy doesn't work, Anacronis can't restore/write floppy/write cd, only focused window work and more.)
Bads: Why not start over? Your XP seems very sick.
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