Win 98 Loss of Floppy Drive

[Mary]

Really strange, can supposedly format a floppy but no way
can I write or read. Device manager reports its working
fine - I did try removing and rebooting to no avail.
Says "system cannot read from drive". Help!

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello Mary

Try this

I actually found a solution from Microsoft. To resolve the problem I had

to use regedit to open the registry look for
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\
{4D36E980-E32511CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}. Delete the
UpperFilters (and LowerFilters if any) Restart PC and all
is well with my floppy drive.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282470


Alvin


Mary wrote:

> Really strange, can supposedly format a floppy but no way
> can I write or read. Device manager reports its working
> fine - I did try removing and rebooting to no avail.
> Says "system cannot read from drive". Help!

[Amethyst]

Mary wrote:
> Really strange, can supposedly format a floppy but no way
> can I write or read. Device manager reports its working
> fine - I did try removing and rebooting to no avail.
> Says "system cannot read from drive". Help!

Mary

This forum is for Windows XP only. Please post in a more appropriate place.


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