Floppy Drive

[Peter]

I'm having floppy drive problems.

New install of XP. New hard drive. New motherboard.

In file explorer, can click on A: drive and view files,
but then the drive never stops working (light stays on,
continues to make noise...), and I am unable to edit the
files, or write any more files to that drive. I have to
eject the disk for it to stop. Problem happens every time
I try to view the A: drive.

1) Checked cable. It is installed correctly.
2) Checked disk. It works fine on another computer. No
disk works on this computer.
3) Checked drive. It works fine on another computer. New
floppy drive does not work on this computer either.

Any suggestions?

 

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Give the link below a try

In Win XP Will not read floppy drives or diskettes.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282470



Alvin

 

[Peter]

Thanks Alvin, but that link is for a different type of
problem. I already have that option cleared. My problem
occurs when I DO have a disk in the drive and then try to
access it.

 

[Frank]

This is not an XP problem. The floppy works for too
many XP users.

Try both links below

In Win XP Will not read floppy drives or diskettes.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282470

Floppy will not format under Win XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm

E.P. van Westendorp wrote:

| Windows XP has a known problem with the floppy drive on many
| computers. Some people think the XP floppy driver may cause this.
| No remedy from MicroSoft so far.
|
|
| Peter wrote:
|| Thanks Alvin, but that link is for a different type of
|| problem. I already have that option cleared. My problem
|| occurs when I DO have a disk in the drive and then try to
|| access it.
||
||| -----Original Message-----
||| Hello
|||
||| Give the link below a try
|||
||| In Win XP Will not read floppy drives or diskettes.
||| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
||
|| us;282470
||
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|||
||| Alvin
|||
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||| Peter wrote:
|||
|||
|||| I'm having floppy drive problems.
||||
|||| New install of XP. New hard drive. New motherboard.
||||
|||| In file explorer, can click on A: drive and view files,
|||| but then the drive never stops working (light stays on,
|||| continues to make noise...), and I am unable to edit
|||
|| the
||
|||| files, or write any more files to that drive. I have to
|||| eject the disk for it to stop. Problem happens every
|||
|| time
||
|||| I try to view the A: drive.
||||
|||| 1) Checked cable. It is installed correctly.
|||| 2) Checked disk. It works fine on another computer. No
|||| disk works on this computer.
|||| 3) Checked drive. It works fine on another computer.
|||
|| New
||
|||| floppy drive does not work on this computer either.
||||
|||| Any suggestions?
|||
||| .