David
December 24th 03, 04:11 PM
Hi,
If I hear you right, everything was fine until you tried
to update drivers? It sounds to me since the floppy is
affected that you may need to reboot and look at the bios
settings to see if they are correct. Have you been in the
case at all fooling with wires?
If not, then look in device manager to see if you have a
red "X" or yellow "!" next to the offending devices. You
might be able to rollback the drivers for the CD's and
the floppy disk, the driver from MS is "flpydisk.sys".
You should be able to update from the properties window
for the floppy drive, click update, the update Wiz should
find nothing better than the original driver. The two cd
drives should work the same way just let the Wiz look for
a better update on your system as recommended by the Wiz.
It should say it can't find a better one and prompt you
to keep the old one.
Cdrom.sys works both my cd and cd-rw drives and are
located in "C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\cdrom.sys", so is
the floppy driver mentioned above.
-David
>-----Original Message-----
>I checked out some instructions for re-installing
>drivers, but everything was working fine before. I don't
>believe it's a compatability issue.
> I tried to reload the driver for my CDRW (the only
one
>I have on disk) and got the message "please insert a
disk
>into drive A" or "this disk is not formatted, would you
>like to format now?"
> so the only things I can do is to download from the
>internet. I'm not really sure who is the manufacturer
for
>my CD drives and the 3.5 which came with the computer
>(compaq presario, with windows XP home)
> This is probably a simple problem, that will make me
>feel really dumb when I find out, all help is definitly
>appreaciated!!
>
> could this be some kind of virus and/or controller
>problem...since it is multiple devices?
>
>.
>
If I hear you right, everything was fine until you tried
to update drivers? It sounds to me since the floppy is
affected that you may need to reboot and look at the bios
settings to see if they are correct. Have you been in the
case at all fooling with wires?
If not, then look in device manager to see if you have a
red "X" or yellow "!" next to the offending devices. You
might be able to rollback the drivers for the CD's and
the floppy disk, the driver from MS is "flpydisk.sys".
You should be able to update from the properties window
for the floppy drive, click update, the update Wiz should
find nothing better than the original driver. The two cd
drives should work the same way just let the Wiz look for
a better update on your system as recommended by the Wiz.
It should say it can't find a better one and prompt you
to keep the old one.
Cdrom.sys works both my cd and cd-rw drives and are
located in "C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\cdrom.sys", so is
the floppy driver mentioned above.
-David
>-----Original Message-----
>I checked out some instructions for re-installing
>drivers, but everything was working fine before. I don't
>believe it's a compatability issue.
> I tried to reload the driver for my CDRW (the only
one
>I have on disk) and got the message "please insert a
disk
>into drive A" or "this disk is not formatted, would you
>like to format now?"
> so the only things I can do is to download from the
>internet. I'm not really sure who is the manufacturer
for
>my CD drives and the 3.5 which came with the computer
>(compaq presario, with windows XP home)
> This is probably a simple problem, that will make me
>feel really dumb when I find out, all help is definitly
>appreaciated!!
>
> could this be some kind of virus and/or controller
>problem...since it is multiple devices?
>
>.
>