Non working internal floppy drive with Vista and a Dell XPS 410

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Internal floppy drive doesn't work (Drive A) but an external floppy drive
(Drive B0 does. Both shoh up on my computer but on disk manager neither drive
is detected. Any suggestions on what to do to get Drive A (internal) to work?

Thanks.
 
You have to disable the non working internal floppy (drive A:) in the bios,
or disconnect the wiring to the drive. Then when the computer restarts the
external USB floppy (assuming that it is constructed correctly - some
aren't) will be detected as drive A: This drive will also be seen as drive
A: in Windows Explorer.

I have had a couple of off brand USB floppy drives that are not detected
correctly, no matter what I do.

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User
 
Thanks for the patch update. Will this patch be automatically downloaded or
do I need to do something? Thanks a lot.
 
I still have the same problem and haven't seen the patch you mentioned. Do
you see it?

Thanks
 
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