Floppy Drive Problem

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Matt

I installed an old floppy drive and haven't used it until
now. Whenever i put a floppy disk in and double click on
the floppy drive icon, an error message comes up and
says "Please insert a disk in to Drive A:".

I have researched already and think it is a hardware
problem but what?
 
Matt said:
I installed an old floppy drive and haven't used it until
now. Whenever i put a floppy disk in and double click on
the floppy drive icon, an error message comes up and
says "Please insert a disk in to Drive A:".

I have researched already and think it is a hardware
problem but what?
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XP is very finicky about floppies - lots and lots of messages in the
various xp newsgroups from people wondering what's wrong. I read a
post from someone with both Win98 and XP on his machines; the XP drive
rejected the same floppies accepted by the Win98 drive. When I was
transferring files between two computers, the new one recognized
perhaps half of my floppies. For the others, the drive might as well
be empty or there might be a request to format. (It definitely does
not like floppies maximized past 1.44M.)

There really isn't a whole lot you can do except feed a bunch of old
floppies to XP, and sort out the ones it accepts. Maybe reformat a few
using XP.
 
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