WinXP incompatible with superfloppy?

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Pete

I have a 120meg super floppy drive which I have had for
four years without a single problem (unjustified
reputation imo). I have just installed a new copy of XP
and added a new hard drive. In doing so I removed the a:
and connected my old hd to copy stuff over. Now when I
reattach the superfloppy, the boot sequence does not
detect the a: or the new c:

Any suggestions please.
 
Pete;
Check the manufacturers website for Windows XP compatibility.
It may be time to replace it.
 
XP is supposed to support LS-120 drives. There's some information here:

http://www.imation.com/en_US/main.jhtml?Id=09_01_04

(Apparently some older "1X" LS-120 drives are not supported, but with any
luck, you don't have one of those.)

Is the LS-120 recognized by the system's BIOS?

Is the new hard drive jumpered correctly?

(I'm unsure as to how you set up the new HD. Did you partition and format it
with the XP CD, and install XP directly to it? That might have been the
cleanest approach.)

The LS-120 drive was a technology whose day never really came, but you ought
to be able to use yours a bit longer. (I've never owned one, but I have one
of its ancestors - the original 21 MB "Floptical" drive - in a box in the
basement.)

Good luck.

Bob Knowlden

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The Imation LS-120 is no longer offered. The drivers available from their
site are not XP certified. Using these drivers worked for me for awhile,
but eventually led to crashing of my XP home system.

I have purchase a 128 Mb Quick Drive and packed my LS 120 away.

Might be time for you to consider doing the same?

Bob
 
Yup. Works perfectly

Chris C said:
Hi, I've had this device working perfectly since XP came out. I just let XP
detect the device and install it's own drivers.....
Chris
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A similar problem:

I have an imation superdrive connected to the parallel port of my
6-month old XP machine. When I boot the machine, I usually get false
starts - the WindowsXP window comes up but then the boot process fails
and I get the 'safe mode/last known config' options. The first time,
this happens once. Then twice, then sometimes 3 times. I usually end
up unplugging the SD and rebooting without it to clean the system up.
I have the April 2003 Win2002/XP driver installed...

Can anyone please suggest the best route to follow to solve this one?

MTIA,
Alison
 
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