1. If devices are recognized as attached peripherals they will be listed as resident on the "System Configuration Summary" (BIOS Startup Screen) at boot. Press the Pause key so it can be stopped and read. If the CMOS/BIOS does not recognize and display peripheral information, Windows certainly will not.
2. Remove the entry for the floppy drive in Device Manager.
3. Start the System Registry Editor by clicking Start, Run, type regedit, and then press Enter.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum\FLOP
Note: Click the Plus box in front of this line to expand it, and continue clicking/expanding appropriate folders (each word preceded by a backslash) until reaching the last item, "FLOP". Click it to bold/highlight.
4. Press the Del key on the keypad and respond positively.
5. Click Registry in the Menu bar and select Exit, or simply click the x in the URHC of the window to close the Registry Editor tool.
6. Restart Windows and ensure that the floppy is recognized in both the Configuration Summary and Device Manager.
When trying to open a 3.5 floppy, a error message comes up saying the drive is not accesssible / the device is not ready-retry or cancel.
The light comes on, device manager shows drivers installed and working properly. But my systems utility shows drive as missing! I have tried uninstalling and re-installing and still shows same thing. It does it with every floppy we have. This is not a new drive or system or anything,and have never had any problems before. problem just came up out of the blue.
Running windows 98se.
Thanks for any help,

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