terrybgood
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Hi all can any one help windows xp a: drive seems to b missing.
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a: drive missing.
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Check out Device Manager. Right click My Computer icon, click on properties, click on Hardware and select Device Manager. Expand both Floppy Disk Controller and Floppy Disk Drive. Right click on expanded Controller and Drive to access Troubleshooter. Play with that. Uninstall the driver, and then right-click any icon and Scan for hardware changes (or reboot) to reinstall or upgrade the driver."
Stop your virus scanner from checking floppy on access and shut down. Depends on virus scanner how this is achieved. Usually by unchecking a box in System Scan settings etc.
Use an old Windows 98 Start up Disk (Or make one in XP, see Format when you right click on Floppy Drive icon with a blank floppy in drive for this option). Have Start up Disk in floppy drive, reboot. This will go to DOS screen. At the "A" prompt type DIR. This will attempt to read floppy. Can you boot from this floppy?
Does it light up at all? Is the power plug and the ribbon plugged into the drive? IS the bios setup correctly?
In addition your controller might be disabled or set
incorrectly in the BIOS so please check this.
Some tweaking programs hide all sorts of things. Problem is, if you use it in an earlier version of windows for the "tweak", then do an upgrade to a later version (not a clean install) the upgrade may carry the "hide" over to new windows system.
Look in the Event Viewer (under System or Application category). Get to Event Viewer by right clicking on My Computer icon then clicking Manage. Any error messages can be expanded by Right clicking on the line and selecting properties.
Event I.D. errors can be checked here....
Stop your virus scanner from checking floppy on access and shut down. Depends on virus scanner how this is achieved. Usually by unchecking a box in System Scan settings etc.
Use an old Windows 98 Start up Disk (Or make one in XP, see Format when you right click on Floppy Drive icon with a blank floppy in drive for this option). Have Start up Disk in floppy drive, reboot. This will go to DOS screen. At the "A" prompt type DIR. This will attempt to read floppy. Can you boot from this floppy?
Does it light up at all? Is the power plug and the ribbon plugged into the drive? IS the bios setup correctly?
In addition your controller might be disabled or set
incorrectly in the BIOS so please check this.
Some tweaking programs hide all sorts of things. Problem is, if you use it in an earlier version of windows for the "tweak", then do an upgrade to a later version (not a clean install) the upgrade may carry the "hide" over to new windows system.
Look in the Event Viewer (under System or Application category). Get to Event Viewer by right clicking on My Computer icon then clicking Manage. Any error messages can be expanded by Right clicking on the line and selecting properties.
Event I.D. errors can be checked here....
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