Missing Floppy Disc Drive

[Bronte1226]

Am at a loss...I was going through some old floppies, moving the data to my hard drive and one of the discs seemed to get stuck. So I closed everything down, but the system seemed to be slow so I rebooted.

Since then, the floppy drive (A:\) has gone missing. If I got through run and type A:\ I get the following message

Run
a:\ refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a different location.

I found 2 articles on Microsoft's website that seem to address the issue

(

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812489

AND

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817196/)

But each asks me to find the registry key for the floppy which I did, and delete the "Upperfilters" and the "Lowerfilters", niether of which are listed in the right pane of the registry when selecting the aforementioned key.

The device manager shows no yellow exclamation points and the floppy controller says it is working fine.

I am running XP Pro SP2 on a Gateway.

 

[Nocandu]

I suppose it's possible that your floppy drive just died and that's why the disk seemed to get stuck.

I haven't had a floppy drive for 10 years so I'm just guessing.

You can get a USB Floppy drive for under $20 that would probably let you finish transferring your stuff to your computer so that it can be saved on CD.

Check this link.

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&ke...=aps&hvadid=4299448995&ref=pd_sl_5fk8pz2eo2_b

Mike