Floppy not setting up in XP

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for the devices the A-5 1/4 drive is not seen, and uninstalling the driver
and reinstalling it comes up with an error, that hardware may not function
correctly, any reasons why? I have tried another floppy I have sitting
around I get the same problwem,
 
RedRider134 said:
for the devices the A-5 1/4 drive is not seen, and uninstalling the driver
and reinstalling it comes up with an error, that hardware may not function
correctly, any reasons why? I have tried another floppy I have sitting
around I get the same problwem,
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Check the obvious. Cable attached correctly? Power applied? Cable
and drive functional? CMOS set correctly with FDC enabled and correct
type of floppy selected?

You might also try booting to a DOS boot disk after setting up CMOS.
This will tell you a lot about your hardware.
 
RedRider134 said:
for the devices the A-5 1/4 drive is not seen, and uninstalling the
driver and reinstalling it comes up with an error, that hardware may
not function correctly, any reasons why? I have tried another floppy
I have sitting around I get the same problwem,
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You have a 5¼" drive?! Why? You can't get the disks for it anymore! Haven't
been able to for years! If I were you I'd swap it for a 3½" - the media is
much more readily available.
 
Its a 3 1/2, typo error, boots with Win98 Boot disk just find, so hardwar
deoesn't seem to be problem
 
Miss Perspicacia Tick said:
You have a 5¼" drive?! Why? You can't get the disks for it anymore! Haven't
been able to for years! If I were you I'd swap it for a 3½" - the media is
much more readily available.
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Maybe he has some old software on 5.25" disks like I do.
 
RedRider134 said:
Its a 3 1/2, typo error, boots with Win98 Boot disk just find, so hardwar
deoesn't seem to be problem
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I am not sure what the above means, but I guess you are saying that the
A: drive is a 1.44, and the B: drive is a 1.2?? Just to let you know,
that a 1.2 MB floppy DOES work as B: drive, and is recognized under XP
Pro. I have seen it work.
 
Typo in my first post. There is 1 3 1/2 floppy, that in the hardware list
has a yeallow circle with exclamation in it. I can unintall it, reinstall it
and I get an error saying that the hardware may not work properly, driver
not loaded correctly??

Thanks
 
RedRider134 said:
for the devices the A-5 1/4 drive is not seen, and uninstalling the driver
and reinstalling it comes up with an error, that hardware may not function
correctly, any reasons why? I have tried another floppy I have sitting
around I get the same problwem,
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I bought a new floppy drive for my new computer because one was needed
to install the drivers for SATA during XP installation. I couldn't get
it to work (or another old one I had around). I don't know if it's the
quality of the drives or something to do with XP.

I gave up and came up with another (better) solution. I made a bootable
XP disk with the drivers incorporated into XP. These are the instructions:

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8892

It's great.

Willi
 
*** silly top-posting fixed ***
Ken said:
I am not sure what the above means, but I guess you are saying
that the A: drive is a 1.44, and the B: drive is a 1.2?? Just
to let you know, that a 1.2 MB floppy DOES work as B: drive, and
is recognized under XP Pro. I have seen it work.
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Maybe he forgot to enable the second floppy in the bios.
 
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