Floppy drive

[Pat]

I have a floppy drive in my IBM thinkpad.
Windows 2000 cannot read the floppy disk in it.
The error message tells me there is a conflict with
something else, but not what it is.

I tested the floppy drive itself by putting a disk in it
before I booted the computer. I was told it was not a
system disk (which it wasn't) so I knew the drive itself
is working.

The system has the service packs installed and everything
else is working.

How can I fix it?

Pat.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have a floppy drive in my IBM thinkpad.
Windows 2000 cannot read the floppy disk in it.
The error message tells me there is a conflict with
something else, but not what it is.

I tested the floppy drive itself by putting a disk in it
before I booted the computer. I was told it was not a
system disk (which it wasn't) so I knew the drive itself
is working.

The system has the service packs installed and everything
else is working.

How can I fix it?

Pat.

Your test is not really valid. To prove that your disk drive
works, you must get it to read something meaningful.
Use a floppy disk of known quality & contents, or boot
the machine with a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com
(which you will have to manufacture on some other PC).

 

[Pat]

Your test is not really valid. To prove that your disk drive
works, you must get it to read something meaningful.
Use a floppy disk of known quality & contents, or boot
the machine with a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com
(which you will have to manufacture on some other PC).

I have just booted up my laptop with the W98 bootup disk

I opened the view help file. The floppy drive did not have
a problem.

So I think my test was valid and it is a W2000 problem.

I go back to my orignal question, how can I fix it?

Thank- you for taking the time to answer my original
question.

Pat.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have just booted up my laptop with the W98 bootup disk

I opened the view help file. The floppy drive did not have
a problem.

So I think my test was valid and it is a W2000 problem.

I go back to my orignal question, how can I fix it?

Thank- you for taking the time to answer my original
question.

Pat.

Try booting in Safe Mode. If you can now access your floppy
disks then the problem is caused by a driver loaded in normal
mode but not loaded in Safe Mode.

 

[mouseyface]

http://www.5starsupport.com/faq/floppy.htm . It sounds like a hardware
conflict. And you can try updating your chipset drivers as that alone
sometimes works miracles. If it is Intel go to
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=816
and for W2K's
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scr...uctID=816&OSFullName=Windows*+2000&submit=Go!