Not installing floppy drive

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Go figure! I thought installing a floppy drive was the simplest of
hardware tasks.

OS: Win XP Home
Model: Dell Dimension 3000
Floppy: Samsung SFD-321B

Symptom is the floppy shows up in system/hardware window, but not in "My
Computer".

1. I enabled floppy in BIOS.
2. Connected power and bus.
3. Status in system/hardware shows good.

Why does the drive not show up in the File System?

 

[Guest]

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Right click on My Computer and select Manage. On the following screen,
click on Disk Management.

Does it show up on the right hand side of the screen?
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Cari
(MS-MVP Printing & Imaging)

"X Analyst" <yoshluntz@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Go figure! I thought installing a floppy drive was the simplest of
> hardware tasks.
>
> OS: Win XP Home
> Model: Dell Dimension 3000
> Floppy: Samsung SFD-321B
>
> Symptom is the floppy shows up in system/hardware window, but not in "My
> Computer".
>
> 1. I enabled floppy in BIOS.
> 2. Connected power and bus.
> 3. Status in system/hardware shows good.
>
> Why does the drive not show up in the File System?
>

 

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I have never seen my floppy drive show up inManagement, but it works fine.
Maybe MY pc is missing something.

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Carl G
"Cari (MS-MVP)" <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> wrote in message
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>
> Right click on My Computer and select Manage. On the following screen,
> click on Disk Management.
>
> Does it show up on the right hand side of the screen?
> --
> Cari
> (MS-MVP Printing & Imaging)
>
> "X Analyst" <yoshluntz@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:tYAae.21824$_t3.7882@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
>> Go figure! I thought installing a floppy drive was the simplest of
>> hardware tasks.
>>
>> OS: Win XP Home
>> Model: Dell Dimension 3000
>> Floppy: Samsung SFD-321B
>>
>> Symptom is the floppy shows up in system/hardware window, but not in "My
>> Computer".
>>
>> 1. I enabled floppy in BIOS.
>> 2. Connected power and bus.
>> 3. Status in system/hardware shows good.
>>
>> Why does the drive not show up in the File System?
>>
>
>
>

 

[map]

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"X Analyst" wrote:

> Go figure! I thought installing a floppy drive was the simplest of
> hardware tasks.
>
> OS: Win XP Home
> Model: Dell Dimension 3000
> Floppy: Samsung SFD-321B
>
> Symptom is the floppy shows up in system/hardware window, but not in "My
> Computer".
>
> 1. I enabled floppy in BIOS.
> 2. Connected power and bus.
> 3. Status in system/hardware shows good.
>
> Why does the drive not show up in the File System?
>

About a year ago I installed a USB external burner and had the same problem
as you are,turns out I didn't have the new drive checked in tweakUI.
Do you use TweakUI?

 

[Guest]

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Don't use tweakUI. Is it free? I yanked floppy drive and bought a usb
floppy and am installing today. don't expect any PROBLEMs.

 

[Guest]

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I wanted to add a postscript. The floppy drive did finally install
correctly. What happened?

When I plugged in the USB floppy, it greased the skids and the internal
floppy appeared in "My Computer". I decided to keep the USB floppy since
I had already pulled the internal floppy.

Some Operating Systems need a good swift kick in the ...

X

MAP wrote:
>
> "X Analyst" wrote:
>
>
>>Go figure! I thought installing a floppy drive was the simplest of
>>hardware tasks.
>>
>>OS: Win XP Home
>>Model: Dell Dimension 3000
>>Floppy: Samsung SFD-321B
>>
>>Symptom is the floppy shows up in system/hardware window, but not in "My
>>Computer".
>>
>>1. I enabled floppy in BIOS.
>>2. Connected power and bus.
>>3. Status in system/hardware shows good.
>>
>>Why does the drive not show up in the File System?
>>
>
>
> About a year ago I installed a USB external burner and had the same problem
> as you are,turns out I didn't have the new drive checked in tweakUI.
> Do you use TweakUI?