Floppy Drive Doesnt Work

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Its a Dell computer Pent 3 790 Mhz
Windows xp Pro sp-2
The problem started suddenly ,no apparent reason with WinXp Home
isnstalled .

The pop up screen reads "Please install a disk in Drive A " with some
disks
with other disks it reads " The disk in drive a is not formatted etc "

In attempting to troubleshoot I tried 2 other drives with cables that
worked in other computers .I also did a new install of WinXp pro SP-2
and still get the same problems .

Iv also formatted new disks in another computer with XP Pro installed
to use

Ive check the Bios but dont see any problem although I may not no
what to look for

The cables are tight and properly installed

Thanks for taking the time to help me out

Flipperf

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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:03:20 -0500, "Yves Leclerc"
<yleclercNOSPAM@maysys.com> wrote:

>Three (3) things:
>
>1) You have a "spyware" program which took over your PC.
> Run
> AD Aware SE 1.05
> Spybot: Search and Destroy 1.3
> CWShredder
>
> to remove "spywares"
>
>2) You have a virus which is trying to access the floppy drive: Run
>antivirus utiltiy (not included with XP)
>
>3) Floppy drive is "dying" . The drives are cheap and you should be able
>to buy a new one.
>
>
>"OleDawg" <flipperf@optonline.net> wrote in message
>news:sfb7q0df8j29edkgdd4g1g0e89f0fgmi0s@4ax.com...
>>
>> Its a Dell computer Pent 3 790 Mhz
>> Windows xp Pro sp-2
>> The problem started suddenly ,no apparent reason with WinXp Home
>> isnstalled .
>>
>> The pop up screen reads "Please install a disk in Drive A " with some
>> disks
>> with other disks it reads " The disk in drive a is not formatted etc "
>>
>> In attempting to troubleshoot I tried 2 other drives with cables that
>> worked in other computers .I also did a new install of WinXp pro SP-2
>> and still get the same problems .
>>
>> Iv also formatted new disks in another computer with XP Pro installed
>> to use
>>
>> Ive check the Bios but dont see any problem although I may not no
>> what to look for
>>
>> The cables are tight and properly installed
>>
>> Thanks for taking the time to help me out
>>
>> Flipperf
>

>Three (3) things:
>
>1) You have a "spyware" program which took over your PC.
> Run
> AD Aware SE 1.05
> Spybot: Search and Destroy 1.3
> CWShredder
>
> to remove "spywares"
>
>2) You have a virus which is trying to access the floppy drive: Run
>antivirus utiltiy (not included with XP)
>
>3) Floppy drive is "dying" . The drives are cheap and you should be able
>to buy a new one.
>
4. You have, once again, no idea what you are talking about.

5. This is a problem often seen in XP.

6. Try using a new batch of floppies and not ones created and/or
formatted in a different drive.