Vista Won't Show my floppy Drive..

[newsqlman]

I'm having quite an issue. I have 2 new systems that I've built with
Intel DG31 Board and a 3rd one with an Intel D965SS board. I've tried
a few different types of floppies in all of them and all of them will
boot to a few different bootable floppies, so I know the drives work
and are seen by the system board.

My problem is that under Vista it doesn't show me a floppy disk
drive. In the device manager it shows a Standard Floppy Disk
controller installed and functioning properly but their is no floppy
drive under my computer to be found.


PLEASE HELP.

 

[Vista User]

I'm having quite an issue. I have 2 new systems that I've built with
Intel DG31 Board and a 3rd one with an Intel D965SS board. I've tried
a few different types of floppies in all of them and all of them will
boot to a few different bootable floppies, so I know the drives work
and are seen by the system board.

My problem is that under Vista it doesn't show me a floppy disk
drive. In the device manager it shows a Standard Floppy Disk
controller installed and functioning properly but their is no floppy
drive under my computer to be found.


PLEASE HELP.

Are you sure its enabled in your BIOS settings?

 

[newsqlman]

I believe it is since it will boot to a floppy disk just fine. The
intel board has 3 options for the floppy drive. Disable, Enable and
Automatic. Enable & Automatic will detect the drive and boot to a
bootable floppy but Vista will not show me the drive.

 

[Tibery-OS]

go to windows explorer,

double click on the address bar that is now what is called the breadcrumb,
so you can type

and type a:\ and press enter

see what happens

report back

 

[Vista User]

I believe it is since it will boot to a floppy disk just fine. The
intel board has 3 options for the floppy drive. Disable, Enable and
Automatic. Enable & Automatic will detect the drive and boot to a
bootable floppy but Vista will not show me the drive.

Is this a upgrade or fresh install?
Can you give us a little history. Did you ever see the floppy or just
noticed it was missing etc..

 

[newsqlman]

When I type that and press enter it gives me:

Windows can not find 'a:\'. Check the spelling and try again.


It gives that to me on all of them. I did try and type in d:\ just to
make sure I was at the right location
and it went to my cd drive.

Any ideas?

I'm stumped.

 

[newsqlman]

All 3 of the systems are fresh installations. On one of them to test
things I loaded XP and the drive works fine from start to finish. But
with a fresh load of Vista it doesn't show up in My Computer. Will
still boot to a bootable floppy but not accessible or visible in
Vista.

Just shows the Standard Floppy Controller under device manager. When
I disable the floppy controller on the board that goes away. So I
know something is happening.

 

[Tibery-OS]

what if you REMOVE the floppy from the device manager ?

then right click on the first icon on the very top of the device manager
tree and select "scan for hardware changes"

it should redetect the drive normally and install it again...

 

[newsqlman]

I tried to remove the Standard Floppy Controller and let it redetect
as you state. But it just redects and still no floppy drive under my
computer or accessible as the other individual told me to try.

For fun I tried a USB Floppy Drive and it shows up fine. But I don't
want to use a USB Floppy Drive I want to use the controller on the
board and wonder what the heck the problem is between intel and MS
Vista on this one.

 

[Tibery-OS]

if you have an XP machine there, download the TWEAK UI
power toy, install it on XP then copy the programs EXE to vista,
it will work.

you will see there that it has the option to hide the drives under MY
COMPUTER> DRIVES

see if its hidden or not. If its not, you can still try to make it hidden
and re enable it...

I am suspecting that even this will not work, because usually when a drive
is hidden and you type a:\ for example, it goes to the drive despite it
being normally invisible.

Perhaps this drive is not compatible with vista??? how about changing the
internal drives with another machine to see if vista will "see" the other
internal one....

 

[newsqlman]

Well Thanks for that last assessment. I have tried a few different
floppies in the system from different manufacturers.

 

[JerryM]

Something to try,

Right click Computer, and select Manage,
Then select Disk manager,
Go to full screen to see all your drives,

See if your CD drive has a drive letter assigned,
I not, right click the drive and select change drive letter and path.

Jerry

 

[Tibery-OS]

I have tried a few different

floppies in the system from different manufacturers.

and none of them work???

 

[JerryM]

You might assign a letter higher in the alphabet so the CD drive letter will
not interfere with the hard drive letters.

 

[Tibery-OS]

its a floppy not a cd

Something to try,

Right click Computer, and select Manage,
Then select Disk manager,
Go to full screen to see all your drives,

See if your CD drive has a drive letter assigned,
I not, right click the drive and select change drive letter and path.

Jerry

 

[JerryM]

Oooops, didn't read far enough,
Sorry

Jerry

its a floppy not a cd

 

[Tibery-OS]

how far? its on the subject line

Oooops, didn't read far enough,
Sorry

Jerry

 

[JerryM]

Aw shucks, my mind was locked onto CD's and that's my only excuse.

Jerry

 

[Tibery-OS]

Dont worry about it... floppies are being phased out.. lots of machines dont
have them any more...

I like having one though, even though I disable it... It has served me a
couple of times

 

[newsqlman]

Guess nobody knows the answer to this one. It has to be with a driver
or something that is missing within Vista. The reason why I say that
is I downloaded some software for Vista to be able to read floppies
from a MAC. When I did that and installed it. My floppy drive works
just fine. I uninstall the program and it goes away again.


What the F*&$K?