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manny   04-11-2004 at 02:18:34 PM

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Hello,

I have no trouble reading my 3.5" floppy drive in Windows
XP. But when I try to save - write to it, the screen
displays "drive is Write protected". I made sure the tab on
the floppy is not on write protected. Any ideas? Thank you
for any help. Please email your response to mtoeman@yahoo.ca .

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Anonymous   04-11-2004 at 05:05:16 PM
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The drive has a mechanical or optical detector that "sees"
through the hole with the slider. Your drive is broken.
Buy a new drive. New Egg has drives of good quality at
reasonable prices.




"Manny" <mtoeman@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
news:1b07101c41fd8$4154f3e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
| Hello,
|
| I have no trouble reading my 3.5" floppy drive in Windows
| XP. But when I try to save - write to it, the screen
| displays "drive is Write protected". I made sure the tab
on
| the floppy is not on write protected. Any ideas? Thank you
| for any help. Please email your response to
mtoeman@yahoo.ca .

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Anonymous   04-12-2004 at 11:31:36 AM
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Check your BIOS setup. Some BIOSes have option to disable write on floppy.

--PA

"Manny" <mtoeman@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
news:1b07101c41fd8$4154f3e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I have no trouble reading my 3.5" floppy drive in Windows
> XP. But when I try to save - write to it, the screen
> displays "drive is Write protected". I made sure the tab on
> the floppy is not on write protected. Any ideas? Thank you
> for any help. Please email your response to mtoeman@yahoo.ca .

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