Windows XP will not detect floppy drive

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The floppy drive is seen by the BIOS, and can be accessed through DOS. However in Windows XP, the drive does not display in My Computer, and typing "a:\" or "b:\" in the Run box gives a "... refers to a location that is unavailable" message. Device Manager doesn't show a floppy controller or floppy drive, and there are not any "Unknown Devices" or "bangs" (unknown hardware).

Attempting "Add New Hardware" does not give an option to install a floppy drive, even manually

This is happening on all of our systems, all with the same motherboard

An MSDN search found articles 812489 and 817196, neither of which helped

The CMOS is set correctly (again the drive can be booted to DOS, and is then fully accessible). Several CMOS variations were tried with no luck. The latest driver set for the motherboard was also installed with no change

A different brand of floppy drive was installed (which is known to work on other systems) which also did not help
 
Make sure the setting "Report no FDD for OS" is not set in BIOS.

Sincerly
Daniel Roth

wbaker said:
The floppy drive is seen by the BIOS, and can be accessed through DOS.
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However in Windows XP, the drive does not display in My Computer, and typing
"a:\" or "b:\" in the Run box gives a "... refers to a location that is
unavailable" message. Device Manager doesn't show a floppy controller or
floppy drive, and there are not any "Unknown Devices" or "bangs" (unknown
hardware).
Attempting "Add New Hardware" does not give an option to install a floppy drive, even manually.

This is happening on all of our systems, all with the same motherboard.

An MSDN search found articles 812489 and 817196, neither of which helped.

The CMOS is set correctly (again the drive can be booted to DOS, and is
Click to expand...
then fully accessible). Several CMOS variations were tried with no luck. The
latest driver set for the motherboard was also installed with no change.
A different brand of floppy drive was installed (which is known to work on
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other systems) which also did not help.
 
There is no such setting in the BIOS for these particular systems.

Thanks anyways for the suggestion.
 

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