floppy drive through parallel port

[Guest]

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I have a HP Onmibook 6100 (win 2000) that allows me to
connect an external floppy drive via cable to the parallel
port. I have a new HP zd7000 (win XP Pro) and want to
attach the same drive to that computer but cannot find
floppy drive in the hardware list and XP is not seeing the
drive. HP, bless their hearts, have these two laptops
supported by different groups and neither are of any help
in the matter. Can I add a floppy drive through the
parallel port in XP and if so how?

Thanks, Billy

 

[gerry]

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My recommendations on this would be to go to the
manufactures website (for the external floppy) and look
for some drivers. XP is not going to plug and pray this
one. You will have to install drivers manually. If you
can find the drivers, install them, power down, connect
the drive to the parallel port and "hopefully" all will
work. Good luck.




>-----Original Message-----
>I have a HP Onmibook 6100 (win 2000) that allows me to
>connect an external floppy drive via cable to the
parallel
>port. I have a new HP zd7000 (win XP Pro) and want to
>attach the same drive to that computer but cannot find
>floppy drive in the hardware list and XP is not seeing
the
>drive. HP, bless their hearts, have these two laptops
>supported by different groups and neither are of any help
>in the matter. Can I add a floppy drive through the
>parallel port in XP and if so how?
>
>Thanks, Billy
>.
>

 

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BTW: XP does not like to have parallel port devices, other than printers.


"Gerry" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2456301c45f84$a1a1bdf0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> My recommendations on this would be to go to the
> manufactures website (for the external floppy) and look
> for some drivers. XP is not going to plug and pray this
> one. You will have to install drivers manually. If you
> can find the drivers, install them, power down, connect
> the drive to the parallel port and "hopefully" all will
> work. Good luck.
>
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I have a HP Onmibook 6100 (win 2000) that allows me to
> >connect an external floppy drive via cable to the
> parallel
> >port. I have a new HP zd7000 (win XP Pro) and want to
> >attach the same drive to that computer but cannot find
> >floppy drive in the hardware list and XP is not seeing
> the
> >drive. HP, bless their hearts, have these two laptops
> >supported by different groups and neither are of any help
> >in the matter. Can I add a floppy drive through the
> >parallel port in XP and if so how?
> >
> >Thanks, Billy
> >.
> >