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More info?)
Hi, Walter.
I was hoping someone else would jump in with a solution. :>(
Does Drive A: appear at all in My Computer? Does Device Manager show a
Floppy Drive Controller? Does it show a Floppy Disk Drive?
You changed to WinXP Home Edition FROM what? Did this same hardware -
including the floppy drive - work before? Did you upgrade from Win9x/ME?
Or did you do a clean install? What is the make and model of your computer?
Sorry for all the questions, but I'm not a mind reader and I can't see your
computer. All I know about it so far is that it's running WinXP HE and the
floppy doesn't work. That's not much to go on! :>(
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
"Walter Davis" <wdavisjr@wans.net> wrote in message
news:9f9a01c4345b$a70f90e0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>
> I can not access my floppy drive or format a floppy, via
> the MY COMPUTER, since changing to XP home edition. It
> won't even format the floppy in the drive. What can I do?
> Right clicking on the Drive A does not work.
> Please Help. I do not have weakUI.
>
> Thanks
> Walter
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Hi, Walter.
>>
>>HOW have you tried to access or format your floppy
> drive? You don't by
>>chance have TweakUI installed, do you? If so, check to
> see that you don't
>>have Drive A: set to not display. Also, check in your
> BIOS settings to be
>>sure that you have the floppy drive properly activated.
>>
>>To format a floppy in WinXP, click My Computer, then
> RIGHT-click on Drive
>>A:. (You'll need to have a diskette in the drive.)
> Note that you can make
>>an MS-DOS boot floppy from this menu, but it won't be
> able to read NTFS, of
>>course, and it won't be able to boot into WinXP. You
> CAN make a floppy that
>>will bypass the system partition and boot WinXP, but
> that's not what you
>>were asking.
>>
>>RC
>>
>>"Walter D" <wdavisjr@wans.net> wrote in message
>>news:7bf001c4313a$4b34eb40$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>>>I can not access my floppy drive since changing to XP
>>> home edition. It won't even format the floppy in the
>>> drive. What can I do?
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