Floppy drive

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I have a floppy drive in my IBM thinkpad.
Windows 2000 cannot read the floppy disk in it.
The error message tells me there is a conflict with
something else, but not what it is.

I tested the floppy drive itself by putting a disk in it
before I booted the computer. I was told it was not a
system disk (which it wasn't) so I knew the drive itself
is working.

The system has the service packs installed and everything
else is working.

How can I fix it?

Pat.
 
Pat said:
I have a floppy drive in my IBM thinkpad.
Windows 2000 cannot read the floppy disk in it.
The error message tells me there is a conflict with
something else, but not what it is.

I tested the floppy drive itself by putting a disk in it
before I booted the computer. I was told it was not a
system disk (which it wasn't) so I knew the drive itself
is working.

The system has the service packs installed and everything
else is working.

How can I fix it?

Pat.
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Your test is not really valid. To prove that your disk drive
works, you must get it to read something meaningful.
Use a floppy disk of known quality & contents, or boot
the machine with a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com
(which you will have to manufacture on some other PC).
 
Your test is not really valid. To prove that your disk drive
works, you must get it to read something meaningful.
Use a floppy disk of known quality & contents, or boot
the machine with a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com
(which you will have to manufacture on some other PC).
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I have just booted up my laptop with the W98 bootup disk

I opened the view help file. The floppy drive did not have
a problem.

So I think my test was valid and it is a W2000 problem.

I go back to my orignal question, how can I fix it?

Thank- you for taking the time to answer my original
question.

Pat.
 
Pat said:
I have just booted up my laptop with the W98 bootup disk

I opened the view help file. The floppy drive did not have
a problem.

So I think my test was valid and it is a W2000 problem.

I go back to my orignal question, how can I fix it?

Thank- you for taking the time to answer my original
question.

Pat.
Click to expand...

Try booting in Safe Mode. If you can now access your floppy
disks then the problem is caused by a driver loaded in normal
mode but not loaded in Safe Mode.
 
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