Keith
March 31st 04, 03:41 AM
Group: I changed the BIOS settings and made the 5.25 the
a-drive and the 3.5 the b-drive and rebooted, WinXp then
read the 5.25 floppy. The floppy cables were connected
such that the 5.25 was at the end and the 3.5 was in the
middle. The icons were assigned incorrectly i.e., the
5.25 physical floppy drive had the 3.5 icon and vice
versa. There was one problem with this arrangement,
beside the one I mentioned, if I placed another 5.25
floppy in the drive WinXP would not refresh the floppy
information from the previous read.
>-----Original Message-----
>Winxp does not read/write my 5.25 floppy disk drive.
This
>same hardware (computer, disk drive, floppy) worked with
>Win98SE without problem. NOw with Winxp the 5.25 floppy
>is not working. XP seems to know to add the device, two
>floppy lines exist in the device manager. However, the
>lines don't read 3.5, 5.25 the lines just read Floppy
>disk drive. When I double click on the 5.25 icon in the
>My Computer window another window comes up asking my to
>format the floppy. If I respond with yes another window
>comes up (Format), that window has blank fields like the
>OS can't "connect" with the device. WinXp has 5.25
>support so what gives? I've called Microsoft without
>resolution so far (SRX040320602275). Can you help? Keith
>Hearns ) Thanks In Advance.
>Keith
>.
>
a-drive and the 3.5 the b-drive and rebooted, WinXp then
read the 5.25 floppy. The floppy cables were connected
such that the 5.25 was at the end and the 3.5 was in the
middle. The icons were assigned incorrectly i.e., the
5.25 physical floppy drive had the 3.5 icon and vice
versa. There was one problem with this arrangement,
beside the one I mentioned, if I placed another 5.25
floppy in the drive WinXP would not refresh the floppy
information from the previous read.
>-----Original Message-----
>Winxp does not read/write my 5.25 floppy disk drive.
This
>same hardware (computer, disk drive, floppy) worked with
>Win98SE without problem. NOw with Winxp the 5.25 floppy
>is not working. XP seems to know to add the device, two
>floppy lines exist in the device manager. However, the
>lines don't read 3.5, 5.25 the lines just read Floppy
>disk drive. When I double click on the 5.25 icon in the
>My Computer window another window comes up asking my to
>format the floppy. If I respond with yes another window
>comes up (Format), that window has blank fields like the
>OS can't "connect" with the device. WinXp has 5.25
>support so what gives? I've called Microsoft without
>resolution so far (SRX040320602275). Can you help? Keith
>Hearns ) Thanks In Advance.
>Keith
>.
>