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Better state the error message then, as Glee suggested. Also, were there
any red/yellow ?/!'s on any icons in Device Manager? And what is the
floppy driver you ultimately did end up with? And was the floppy drive
reliable in Safe Mode?
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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp@netzero.net
"noname" <noname@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| OOOOOPS,
| still some problems, will try again after rebooting.
"noname" <noname@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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|
| thanks a lot for everyone especially PCR. I had to go to the last
option u
| suggested and which fixed the problem.
| Now I just want to share my experience with everyone
| after show all hardware I found many in the left pane. I selected them
one
| by one but when clicked next, windows told me that the action was not
| recomnended. I went back to update driver stage and now opted for
search for
| a better driver and then in search locations there were 'windows
update,
| CDRom, Dcab(prhaps)' I cliked next. after all that I tried to put a
file on
| floppy(brand new), it said floppy was not formatted, I opted for quick
erase
| which didn't work and i had to go for thorough formathing. after that
I was
| able to put a text file on floppy and open it as well.
| thanks again
"PCR" <pcrrcp@netzero.net> wrote in message
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| I guess it's worth a try to...
|
| Boot to Safe Mode (Hold F5 or Ctrl as you boot), &...
|
| (0) Firstly, does the floppy drive work in Safe Mode?
| Especially if so...
| (1) "Control Panel, System, Device Manager tab"
| (2) Open the "Floppy disk controllers" branch.
|
| If there are more than one controller in this branch, you may
have
| a "ghost". Therefore, delete them all, & reboot to Normal Mode. Point
it
| to the folder that contains your .cabs, if asked.
|
| But, if there is already just one driver there, then...
|
| (3) D-Clk the controller that appears under it for Properties.
| (Mine is "Standard floppy disk controller".)
| (4) At the Driver tab, click the "Update Driver" button.
| (5) Click the "Next" button.
| (6) Bolt "Display a list of drivers...", & click "Next".
| (7) Bolt "Show all hardware".
|
| Examine the screen. Mine is "Standard", but I have four other
| choices there. Do you? As one clicks them in the left "Manufacturers"
| pane, descriptive info shows up in the right "Models" pane. Perhaps,
| state what you see. It could be worthwhile to go to another and back
to
| the original just to shake things up. To switch, select one, & click
| "Next".
|
| (Soon, I must myself switch to the Compaq controller there. I wonder
| when it was I mussed that!)
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