Not installing floppy drive

[X Analyst]

Go figure! I thought installing a floppy drive was the simplest of
hardware tasks.

OS: Win XP Home
Model: Dell Dimension 3000
Floppy: Samsung SFD-321B

Symptom is the floppy shows up in system/hardware window, but not in "My
Computer".

1. I enabled floppy in BIOS.
2. Connected power and bus.
3. Status in system/hardware shows good.

Why does the drive not show up in the File System?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Right click on My Computer and select Manage. On the following screen,
click on Disk Management.

Does it show up on the right hand side of the screen?

 

[Carl G]

I have never seen my floppy drive show up inManagement, but it works fine.
Maybe MY pc is missing something.

 

[Guest]

Go figure! I thought installing a floppy drive was the simplest of
hardware tasks.

OS: Win XP Home
Model: Dell Dimension 3000
Floppy: Samsung SFD-321B

Symptom is the floppy shows up in system/hardware window, but not in "My
Computer".

1. I enabled floppy in BIOS.
2. Connected power and bus.
3. Status in system/hardware shows good.

Why does the drive not show up in the File System?

About a year ago I installed a USB external burner and had the same problem
as you are,turns out I didn't have the new drive checked in tweakUI.
Do you use TweakUI?

 

[X_analyst]

Don't use tweakUI. Is it free? I yanked floppy drive and bought a usb
floppy and am installing today. don't expect any PROBLEMs.

 

[X Analyst]

I wanted to add a postscript. The floppy drive did finally install
correctly. What happened?

When I plugged in the USB floppy, it greased the skids and the internal
floppy appeared in "My Computer". I decided to keep the USB floppy since
I had already pulled the internal floppy.

Some Operating Systems need a good swift kick in the ...

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