..but it's a dell

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floppy drive lost, any hint ?


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1) cannot reinstall from windows
2) can't see what's wrong in the "thing"
called registry, but i don't know if one
could check all the keys involved to
floppy disk ?
3) the drive still works in DOS !!!!
but when windows loads, the drive is unable
to read floppys, stucking on some sectors
again and again)

played with ramdisk and baymanager :(


laurent
 
floppy drive lost, any hint ?


(
1) cannot reinstall from windows
2) can't see what's wrong in the "thing"
called registry, but i don't know if one
could check all the keys involved to
floppy disk ?
3) the drive still works in DOS !!!!
but when windows loads, the drive is unable
to read floppys, stucking on some sectors
again and again)

played with ramdisk and baymanager :(
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Boot computer, go into bios, check floppy parameters ( i.e. 31/2 inch
1.44Mb ).
Go to PCI/ plug and play - set reset configuration to Enable.
Save bios.

Boot to windows Safe Mode. Select computer properties, find floppy
drive entry, delete it - ditto floppy disk controllers.
Reboot - windows should redetect floppy.

Otherwise... (e-mail address removed) ?

Regards,
 
lisztfr said:
floppy drive lost, any hint ?
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My Dell machine has had exactly the same problem for the past few months
(don't use it anymore though so not going to spend anymore time on it. Tried
everything Steve H mentioned when I first noticed it, and tried contacting
Dell.... nada).

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
Did you try more than one disk, also what os are you running, cause if you
are using windows xp your not using dos.

Thanks Rick,
 
exactly the same ? floppy working in dos, and not working
in windows ? maybe reinstall ? i have tried every thing i can
think about :(

the drive is recognised ok in windows...!

laurent
 
Yep.... literally exactly the same .... (both Windows and the BIOS recognize
the drive, and it works just fine in two other machines... and my spare
floppy drive works in the Dell, so just leaves some major confusion).

--
Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
My Dell machine has had exactly the same problem for the past few months
(don't use it anymore though so not going to spend anymore time on it. Tried
everything Steve H mentioned when I first noticed it, and tried contacting
Dell.... nada).
Click to expand...

Only thing I can think of is that there's a resource conflict in
Windows somewhere.
I've had similar problems with soundcards etc, whereby it all looks
tickety-boo in system properties ( i.e. no exclamation marks beside
the item ) and yet as soon as the device is used the system goes awol.

There's another setting in the bios you can try which relates to
system resources. Typically this is found in PCI/PnP setup and is
usually labeled 'PnP OS' ( enable/disable ).
If enabled the bios lets the OS sort out the resources, in disabled
the bios does it.
I've found it sometime cures the odd clash of resources.

I guess the only other option is to swap out the drive and see if that
makes a difference.

Regards,
 
Steven Burn said:
Yep.... literally exactly the same .... (both Windows and the BIOS recognize
the drive, and it works just fine in two other machines... and my spare
floppy drive works in the Dell, so just leaves some major confusion).
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I had a problem on a Dell where the system wouldn't see the floppy.
Here are my notes...
- can't see floppy drive on Bill's system
- only 714MB free on hard drive
- deleted Temp and TIF files; 1.13GB in one temp folder, mostly temp
jpg files
- ran drive cleanup; deleted WinME and other backup files, freeing
much space
- that restored access to floppy drive

Not sure it's relevant, but it fixed this person's problem.

Larry
 
Fixed !

How ?

dunno ! if it can help, i did the following, but
i can't tell what exactly worked :

1) moved HSFLOP and VMM32.VXD away from there folders,
so the systeme couldn't start. booted many times because i had
no DOS floppy (fogort to keep my ass), only GAG, which is
usuless in such situation (therefore better Grub, which let
you in a prompt)

2) made a boot floppy from a XP windows system,
booted the PC with the XP (btw made on an USB flop drv)

then i tried to recover my system, so load command.com,
doskey, and restored the moved files above to there correct
folders.

For the moment it works OK !

read here :

http://www.duxcw.com/dcforum/DCForumID7/149.html

laurent
 
My device manager is completly made... detecting tape drive
where no is, and so on. What you mean Larry with deleting
win me backups, only to get space ?
Now, even deleting devices in device manager don't let
win me to re detect the good one, also hdtach cause an error
while loading ... :(
and suspend mode is dead...

laurent
 
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