[geeks] Floppy? What floppy?

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Wed Aug 5 13:18:25 CDT 2009


Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Has anyone else run into a situation in which Windows (2K pro, in this
>> case) apparently simply *disbelieves in* an apparently perfectly
>> functional floppy drive?  It detects it as a new device if uninstalled,
>> installs a driver, swears it's working perfectly, but when you try to
>> access it (either via GUI or CLI), it swears no such drive exists.
>>
>>
> Check the BIOS settings.
> 
> Check the Disk Management stuff under Admin Tools.

Yup, been through all of those.  Even checked the controlset class
entries in the registry.


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