Windows 10: floppy disks dont read in windows, but do read in linux?

I was looking at some old disks, cleaning up and figuring out things and found out the windows simply has severe issues with my floppies, most all were made on windows 95,98,ME. some are boot disks. Window looks at for a while, then says disc needs formatting. And if you try to format it, explorer immediately crashes.
I tried a couple different drives on couple different modern windows PC's and all act very much the same way.

then I popped them into a Linux machine, and they all read fine. (after your done with a floppy you have to right click and unmount to read another diskette. I also swapped drives and the problem is in the windows OS, not the old hardware.

So what's going on with this old stuff and windows today?

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Cannot read files on floppy disk

Thank you qubit, the drive has been reading several floppies ok. I have a spare drive which i will sub as you suggest. Lesson learnt must switch totally to memsticks. Thank you for your help.

 

Why won't Windows 10 read 3.5" floppy disk on external USB floppy drive?

Is there a fix to make Windows 10 read 3.5 floppy disks on a USB floppy disk drive. The drive shows up in the Devices and Printers screen but when I right click on the device and choose "Browse files" and then choose "Floppy Disk Drive(A" it replies

"A:\ is not accessible.

The disk media is not recognized. It may not be formatted."

It does this on both my notebooks Dell Inspiron and Asus

 

USB Floppy disks not auto-reading

It's possible that the floppy drive mechanism and/or the floppy-to-USB bridge chipset have not implemented change line support.
Dunno whether DOSBOX inherently supports this either....