Floppy not show in my computer

[John Wink]

Hi all,

My disk A: does not appear in my WinVista Business x32, Vista not support
the floppy disk?

 

[Malke]

Hi all,

My disk A: does not appear in my WinVista Business x32, Vista not support
the floppy disk?

Sure it does. Did you upgrade from XP? Did the drive work in XP? If you
upgraded, did you then install all the Vista drivers for your hardware?
This would include the motherboard drivers, which include the drive
controller drivers.

Malke

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Does it show in Control Panel, Device manager? If it does, uninstall the
driver and restart. If not, the drive is broken.

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[John Wink]

I installed the WinVista of zero.

Sure it does. Did you upgrade from XP? Did the drive work in XP? If you
upgraded, did you then install all the Vista drivers for your hardware?
This would include the motherboard drivers, which include the drive
controller drivers.

Malke

 

[John Wink]

Yes, I have done that and not resolved.

Does it show in Control Panel, Device manager? If it does, uninstall the
driver and restart. If not, the drive is broken.

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[John Wink]

Not resolved. This is the same.

 

[the wharf rat]

Not resolved. This is the same.

Sounds like a loose cable. Might be a failed drive, they *do*
fail y'know...

 

[Andy]

Hi all,

My disk A: does not appear in my WinVista Business x32, Vista not support
the floppy disk?

Can you boot the computer from a DOS diskette? If yes, then the floppy
drive should appear in Vista.

 

[HeyBub]

Hi all,

My disk A: does not appear in my WinVista Business x32, Vista not
support the floppy disk?

Do you have floppy drive support turned on in the BIOS?

Is the floppy drive access light on all the time? If so, the cable is
reversed.

Are you using the cable end that has the twist in it (not the connector in
the middle, the one on the end)?

Floppy drives are commodity items (i.e., made from old beer-can metal) and
cost about $10.00. Try another.

 

[Steven Wabik]

I got my floppy drive working in vista. but I had to get the drivers for the
device from the OEM. my 1.44MB floppy drive if from 1995. what type of
floppy drive are you running and what year is it from.

Vista only nativly supports LS-120, ZIP Disk, and JAZZ Drive type floppy
drives. however it will support low capacity floppy drives at times when
they are USB based, but just the newer ones.

For the floppy not showing up at all. in the device manager. do any "unknown
devices" show up in the list of devices.