cyclic redundancy

[Cam]

I work in the computer lab on campus and our labs switched over to Windows XP Pro this semester. I've had 3-4 people come in to print stuff they saved on a floppy at home who have tried to access their disk through Word and get a "disk error (cyclic redundancy)" When I try to open the disk using explorer the disk comes up as being unformatted.

All of the people who have gotten this error have been able to access their disk at home where the majority of them have informed me they use windows 98 or ME. I can't figure it out, and sadly my boss just doesn't give a shit so nobody working in tech support is going to attempt to figure this out.

I've done some googling and the only explanation I can find is that it's caused by a bad floppy, or bad drive, but if they can access the files at home, and other disks work fine in the drive neither of these explanations make any sense. If anyone has any ideas they would like to share they would be welcome.