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I had just had an HD go bad and i replaced the HD and reinstalled
Windows XP Pro. After a problem getting XP to see the new HD, I
finally got that working. However i need to get ethernet drivers from
a CD i have, but it demands that this come from a floppy. So I have to
pull this info from the CD to a floppy.
But I can not get the A drive to work. I get an error message saying
that "A drive is not accessible" and "No ID adress mark on floppy".
Sometimes it asks me to format the floppy disk, but then it won't
format it (these disks are already formatted anyway). I've tried
looking around on Google and this is obviously a very common problem
with XP. It really looks like a common XP bug to me, yet I have been
unable to find a solution anywhere.
It is NOT the floppy disks, I've tried many different blank formatted
disks, and also purchased program floppy disks, and it can't read any
of them.
I also do NOT believe it is the disk drive itself. I have two
computers, an older one and a newer one. I get the same error message
on both. It seems extremely unlikely that BOTH A drives are bad, and
that so many people seem to have this same problem on XP and it's all
just tons of bad A drives.
I believe it is a bug in XP and I can't figure out what to do.
I saw one web page where someone who had the problem commented that if
you reinstall the drivers for the A drive that this fixes the problem,
so it seems like the drive is not the issue, but I haven't the
slightest clue how to do this. When i go to the A drive in device
manager it gives the option to 'update drivers' but finds nothing to
update. It gives an 'uninstall' option, but no "reinstall". So i don't
know what to do here, yet I'm completely stuck without being able to
get the floppy to work.
Windows XP Pro. After a problem getting XP to see the new HD, I
finally got that working. However i need to get ethernet drivers from
a CD i have, but it demands that this come from a floppy. So I have to
pull this info from the CD to a floppy.
But I can not get the A drive to work. I get an error message saying
that "A drive is not accessible" and "No ID adress mark on floppy".
Sometimes it asks me to format the floppy disk, but then it won't
format it (these disks are already formatted anyway). I've tried
looking around on Google and this is obviously a very common problem
with XP. It really looks like a common XP bug to me, yet I have been
unable to find a solution anywhere.
It is NOT the floppy disks, I've tried many different blank formatted
disks, and also purchased program floppy disks, and it can't read any
of them.
I also do NOT believe it is the disk drive itself. I have two
computers, an older one and a newer one. I get the same error message
on both. It seems extremely unlikely that BOTH A drives are bad, and
that so many people seem to have this same problem on XP and it's all
just tons of bad A drives.
I believe it is a bug in XP and I can't figure out what to do.
I saw one web page where someone who had the problem commented that if
you reinstall the drivers for the A drive that this fixes the problem,
so it seems like the drive is not the issue, but I haven't the
slightest clue how to do this. When i go to the A drive in device
manager it gives the option to 'update drivers' but finds nothing to
update. It gives an 'uninstall' option, but no "reinstall". So i don't
know what to do here, yet I'm completely stuck without being able to
get the floppy to work.