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XP recognizes floppy drive yet not able to read ???

by anon098 May 16, 2005 12:34PM PDT

I have a frankensystem running a 1.8 ghz celeron, on a Intel GLVA 478 pin entry-level motherboard. New antec power supply. Generic sound card.Geforce 128 PCI graphix card. Memorex dvd RW. Running XP with Sp2. XP recognizes the floppy drive and indicates that it is working properly. the drivers are current. When I insert any floppy I get the "please insert disk into a: drive" message. Even stranger is that a family member has a floppy disk that doesn't work either. We swapped files a while back. Any channce this is a virus? I have Norton running with all updates so i'm sceptical that a virus is to blame, but no other guesses. Any ideas cnet forum? Thanks.

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Probably dirty

by AussiePete May 16, 2005 6:46PM PDT

You can buy floppy cleaners just like VCR video cleaners. My guess is the disk you shared with your family member was dirty.
Also check in device manager that it is working OK. Peter

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Floppy

by Amos16 May 17, 2005 6:02AM PDT

Have a look at my reply to your thread posted onthe win 95/98 forum. Amos

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