Floppy drive

[TB]

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After installing WinXP Pro my floppy drive does not
work. I tried the drive and cable in another PC (Win98)
and it works fine. I deleted the A drive in device
manager and rebooted. Win finds the drive but when I
insert a disk and try to open it in My Computer the drive
light comes on momentarily and it says "Please insert
disk in drive A". Any suggestions.

 

[Guest]

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Is this with any floppy disk? If you only tried testing this with one
floppy disk, perhaps you used a bad floppy disk. Windows may not recognize
a damaged floppy disk at all.

Are you using a generic floppy disk drive? I don't think it's likely,
but.. well, perhaps yours requires drivers! I don't really recall a case
where drivers for floppy disk drives were necessary, but it is possible, I
suppose.

Shane Steinmetz

"TB" <jetlag03@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1cc0201c42290$66e623d0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> After installing WinXP Pro my floppy drive does not
> work. I tried the drive and cable in another PC (Win98)
> and it works fine. I deleted the A drive in device
> manager and rebooted. Win finds the drive but when I
> insert a disk and try to open it in My Computer the drive
> light comes on momentarily and it says "Please insert
> disk in drive A". Any suggestions.

 

[Al]

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Don't know if this will help but worth a try

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q282470
Al

"TB" <jetlag03@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1cc0201c42290$66e623d0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> After installing WinXP Pro my floppy drive does not
> work. I tried the drive and cable in another PC (Win98)
> and it works fine. I deleted the A drive in device
> manager and rebooted. Win finds the drive but when I
> insert a disk and try to open it in My Computer the drive
> light comes on momentarily and it says "Please insert
> disk in drive A". Any suggestions.