Tom's Hardware: Topic Cannot accessFloppy drives/disks
Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions.
Sign up now! Its free!
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq (More info?)
hello..
For some reason I am unable to acess my floppy drive on My Presario 5695.
I put in the disk and a box pops up.. PLEASE INSERT DISK... Hello - disk is
in.. Drive fails to read the disk or even acknolwedge it's present..
Please help.. I need the info on these disks..
Running XP Home edition
\
Any Help appreciated...
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq (More info?)
Unfortunately. floppy drives and diskettes are among the most unreliable
components around. If all your 3.5" floppies are unreadable, it likely is
the drive. You can buy any $15 floppy drive and just lay it down to read a
few diskettes or you can go to HP Parts and use this spare part number,
304235-001, to order a new drive to install in the machine or you could get
an external USB floppy drive.
HH
"kawika" <da2693@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:0eF8e.8474$c93.7126@trnddc08...
> hello..
>
> For some reason I am unable to acess my floppy drive on My Presario 5695.
>
> I put in the disk and a box pops up.. PLEASE INSERT DISK... Hello - disk
> is in.. Drive fails to read the disk or even acknolwedge it's present..
> Please help.. I need the info on these disks..
>
> Running XP Home edition
> \
> Any Help appreciated...
>
>
>
>
Please mind
You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.
Sponsored links
Ad
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them
- 23:20 math1337 won the Sophmore badge
- 01:00 CosmicTwister won the Freshman badge
- 22:27 Bluescreendeath won the Graphics badge
- 01:00 lonewolfz24 won the Freshman badge
- 01:00 er_amitthakur won the Freshman badge
- 01:00 distortion won the Freshman badge
- 19:55 batuchka won the Home Brew badge
- 01:00 OblivionLord won the Freshman badge
- 01:00 jorobe won the Freshman badge
- 01:00 wmalinowski won the Freshman badge