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by **lawley** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:31 pm

Ive had my floppy disk drive for 8 years now :shock:

without any problems its worked on

Win95
Win98
winMe

the other night i purchased WinXP proffessional and it stopped working

it is in the Bios and everything though it boots straight into windows when i leave a floppy disc in when it should bring up the error when you leave a floppy in, also in windows when you try to use a floppy it says please insert floppy disc even though i have a floppy disc in there any thoughts on how to fix this ?

by **brad** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:06 pm

Have you looked in "Device Manager" to see if it has a ? or a !?
If it's listed and doesn't have any problems try removing it and rebooting and Windows will reinstall it.
Let us know.
brad

by **lawley** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:19 pm

by **Ranger Bob** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:12 pm

by **badpolarbear** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:48 pm

by **Ranger Bob** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:55 pm

by **lawley** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:28 pm

by **brad** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:40 pm

by **Ranger Bob** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:46 pm

by **lawley** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:11 am

by **Ranger Bob** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:22 am

by **badpolarbear** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:37 pm

Should a boot sequence not be IDE CD Floppy?

by **brad** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 3:08 pm

With WinXp I put CDROM ahead as that's what is usually used to boot to repair/etc. If it doesn't "see" a CD then it boots to the HD. If you needed to repair and it was set to boot from IDE then it wouldn't "see" the CD.
brad

by **Ranger Bob** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 5:11 pm

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