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Old June 5th 04, 03:51 AM
sean
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I have been trying to use my floppy drive and everytime I
try to access the a drive.It tells me to put in a disk
when I already have one in the drive.I even changed out
the floppy drive(a drive)with a new one and it still says
the thing,insert disk.I have been having this problem for
days.Please help.
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Old June 5th 04, 07:38 AM
Noel Paton
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Try this
Boot to Safe Mode
Open Device Manager
Remove ALL floppy drives
Remove ALL floppy disk controllers
Reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall required drivers

See if that helps.

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I have been trying to use my floppy drive and everytime I
try to access the a drive.It tells me to put in a disk
when I already have one in the drive.I even changed out
the floppy drive(a drive)with a new one and it still says
the thing,insert disk.I have been having this problem for
days.Please help.



 




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