XP won't recognize my floppy or CD-ROM drive

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Nick

How many diskettes have you tried?.. the diskette drive may be damaged.. re.
the CD drive, have you set it to 'autoplay' to see what happens?.. how old
are the drives?.. nothing lasts forever..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User
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"Nick Cellino" <mechanic123@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>I can't get Windows XP to recognize my floppy or CD-ROM Drive. When I boot
> to Safe Mode, both drives work perfectly so I know the drives are plugged
> in
> properly and aren't defective but when in "Normal" Mode, I always get the
> "Please insert a disk into Drive A" error message each time I try to open
> the floppy and nothing appears when I open the CD-ROM drive.
>
> Assuming I have a software conflict somewhere, I have run msconfig many
> times, using selective start-ups to disable SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI, Services
> and Start-up programs but this hasn't helped to solve the problem. None of
> the disabling attempts made the drives work so I haven't been able to
> narrow
> down the source of the problem.
>
> The only time the CD-ROM drive works, temporarily, is upon start-up if a
> CD-ROM is inside the drive but as soon as I remove it and stick in another
> CD-ROM, Windows fails to recognize it. The floppy never works except in
> Safe
> Mode, as mentioned above. I have no viruses. Does anyone have any
> suggestions that might help?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Nick Cellino
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

Thanks Mike but if the drives were damaged, they would not work perfectly in
Safe Mode. I believe I have finally solved the problem that has plagued me
for weeks.

I searched in Device Manger and found two !Conflicts buried in the System
Devices section. I "uninstalled" both of them, rebooted the computer and
both drives worked!

"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" <mike.hall.mail@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Nick
>
> How many diskettes have you tried?.. the diskette drive may be damaged..
re.
> the CD drive, have you set it to 'autoplay' to see what happens?.. how old
> are the drives?.. nothing lasts forever..
>
> --
> Mike Hall
> MVP - Windows Shell/User
> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
>
>
>
>
> "Nick Cellino" <mechanic123@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:eew7M5SVFHA.3076@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >I can't get Windows XP to recognize my floppy or CD-ROM Drive. When I
boot
> > to Safe Mode, both drives work perfectly so I know the drives are
plugged
> > in
> > properly and aren't defective but when in "Normal" Mode, I always get
the
> > "Please insert a disk into Drive A" error message each time I try to
open
> > the floppy and nothing appears when I open the CD-ROM drive.
> >
> > Assuming I have a software conflict somewhere, I have run msconfig many
> > times, using selective start-ups to disable SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI,
Services
> > and Start-up programs but this hasn't helped to solve the problem. None
of
> > the disabling attempts made the drives work so I haven't been able to
> > narrow
> > down the source of the problem.
> >
> > The only time the CD-ROM drive works, temporarily, is upon start-up if a
> > CD-ROM is inside the drive but as soon as I remove it and stick in
another
> > CD-ROM, Windows fails to recognize it. The floppy never works except in
> > Safe
> > Mode, as mentioned above. I have no viruses. Does anyone have any
> > suggestions that might help?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Nick Cellino
> >
> >
>
>