Which components are needed to have full floopy disk support in WinXPe

[Sören Gessele]

Hi,
iam wondering which components i need to add to have full floppy-disk
support in WinXPe.
Added components are: "Standard Floppy Disk Controller", "Floppy Disk Drive"
and "FAT".
Iam using "Minlogon" und the "Command shell". If iam trying to access the
drive by typing "a:", i get this error message: "The system cannot find the
drive specified".
Where is the fault?

With best regards,
Sören Gessele

 

[James Beau Cseri]

With those components, it seems as though the dependency checker would find
any other necessary components. The floppy disk might be bad. Can you access
it on your development system? Also check the BIOS settings on your target
system to make sure that the floppy is enabled.

 

[KM]

Sören,

Did you check FBALog for related errors? Search there by 'GENERIC_FLOPPY_DRIVE'.
Also check setupapi.log (just search by 'floppy') to see if the Floppy Controller and other got installed with no errors.
Also, you can use devcon (console device management tool) to see if floppy drive stack was installed properly.

 

[Sören Gessele]

Hi KM,
it seems, that i`ve solved the problem by adding "Plug
and Play Softwave Device Enumerator". When this component is added to the
configuration and booting then system, the FBA starts to scan for
PnP-Devices => the floppy-disk is added to the system and accessible.
Where can i find the "devcon"?

With best regards,
Sören

Sören,

Did you check FBALog for related errors? Search there by 'GENERIC_FLOPPY_DRIVE'.
Also check setupapi.log (just search by 'floppy') to see if the Floppy

Controller and other got installed with no errors.

Also, you can use devcon (console device management tool) to see if floppy

drive stack was installed properly.

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Sören,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311272
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._744d640a-c44e-4cb9-a68f-60ce341d1c74.xml.asp

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Sören Gessele]

Thank you!!!!

Best regards,
Sören

Hi Sören,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311272
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._744d640a-c44e-4cb9-a68f-60ce341d1c74.xml.asp

Regards,
Slobodan