floppy

[mike]

My A drive for floppies keeps looking for a floppy. I tried to read a floppy
last night and it didn't read it. Now the floppy drive keeps lighting up
like it is searching.
Need help.
Thank you

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Mike,

This was previously posted by Rick Rogers MS-MVP.

Start/run regedit

Click edit/find

Search for A:\

It will most likely turn up in a key containing MRU (for Most Recently
Used).

Highlight the string in the right pane by left clicking it, click
registry/export and save it to a location you can find later if
necessary.
Then delete that string, and agree to the warning.

If there are problems resulting from the deletion, you can simply
double-click the exported copy to return things to the way they were. If
all
goes well, then you can simply delete the exported copy at a later date.
Close the registry editor, you may need to reboot, but the effect should
be
immediate.

 

[PopS]

: My A drive for floppies keeps looking for a floppy. I tried to
read a floppy
: last night and it didn't read it. Now the floppy drive keeps
lighting up
: like it is searching.
: Need help.
: Thank you
:
:

It's faster for me to give yo these links; in a hurry today:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers

Great resources.

Pop

 

[Vanguard]

: My A drive for floppies keeps looking for a floppy. I tried to
read a floppy
: last night and it didn't read it. Now the floppy drive keeps
lighting up
: like it is searching.
: Need help.
: Thank you
:
:

It's faster for me to give yo these links; in a hurry today:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

<snip>

So, you think it is helpful to tell someone to post in the group where you
read their post? Duh. Their post is IN this group, and then you tell them
to post IN this group.

 

[Vanguard]

My A drive for floppies keeps looking for a floppy. I tried to read a
floppy last night and it didn't read it. Now the floppy drive keeps
lighting up like it is searching.

Same thing happen when you reboot into Safe Mode?

Have you tried using msconfig.exe to disable all startup programs and then
reboot into normal mode?