Floppy Drive Letter A missing

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The Device Manager is showing floppy drive working correctly. My computer has
floppy drive A: missing. Please help. The floppy will not reconize a diskette
 
The Device Manager is showing floppy drive working correctly. My
computer has floppy drive A: missing. Please help. The floppy will not
reconize a diskette
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It may be disabled in BIOS. Boot into setup (usually by tapping the delete,
F1, or F2 key when you first boot up. Look for Floppy Disk Drive and see if
it's disabled. If, so set it to 3-1/2 1.44M.
 
Check whether it is disabled in BIOS or not.

The floppy disk drive is missing from the My Computer folder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812489

Floppy Disk Drive Does Not Appear in the My Computer Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;817196

If you have XP Pro then check the group policy settings:-

start>run>gpedit.msc>ok

User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows
Explorer\ Hide these specified drives in My Computer

Set to Not Configured.[Read the explanation]

Check the registry setting also:-
Start>Run>regedit>OK

navigate to:-
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer

Check whether there is a Value Name in the right hand pane called
NoDrives?



regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]
 
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