Drive_A is not recognized

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Byron Mathews

Windows XP Professional has stopped recognizing my floppy
drive A. Any recommendations for correcting this?
 
check the cables, make sure BIOS recognizes it...if not, replace it.
if BIOS recognizes the floppy and u can boot from it...try removing it from
Device Manager, reboot (or search for new hardware).
 
i have the same problem and haven't solved it yet.
replaced drive/cable already. deleted controller from the
system manager, then reboot. same problem afterwards.
winXP DEFINITELY has some problem regarding floppy drives.
 
Byron Mathews said:
Windows XP Professional has stopped recognizing my floppy
drive A. Any recommendations for correcting this?
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Is the floppy drive shown in Windows Explorer at all? Does it light
up? Also, if you've been inside your computer, is there any chance
that you might have loosened a ribbon?
 
junjun wrote:
| i have the same problem and haven't solved it yet.
| replaced drive/cable already. deleted controller from the
| system manager, then reboot. same problem afterwards.
| winXP DEFINITELY has some problem regarding floppy drives.

No *you* DEFINITELY have a problem regarding floppy drives.

|| -----Original Message-----
|| check the cables, make sure BIOS recognizes it...if not, replace it.
|| if BIOS recognizes the floppy and u can boot from it...try removing
|| it from Device Manager, reboot (or search for new hardware).
|| --
|| For evil to prosper requires only that good men remain silent!
|| ||| Windows XP Professional has stopped recognizing my floppy
||| drive A. Any recommendations for correcting this?
 
When it kept saying: "Please insert a disk into drive A", all I did was to
flip over the ribbon connector to the floppy drive and the problem was
solved.

Mike
 
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