My pc will not recognize my floppy drive and sometimes it 'forgets' my CD-Rom...

[Emir Karakurt]

Hi,
my problem is a very strange one indeed. Even though i
have a floppy drive that is correctly connected to the
system Windows XP insists on not recognizing it... i can
not make the A: drive appear on the My Computer window. I
check device manager and i can't see a floppy drive there
either... how can i fix this?

Also sometimes windows will 'forget' i have a cdrom
drive, let's say i start up the system, the computer will
see the cddrive and i can use it well... but when i try
installing a program from a cd, when it asks for a cd
change it sometimes forgets there's a cdrom drive
connected when i insert the second cd and close the tray.
the Cd-Rom/DVD-rom section in the Device manager is
removed entirely and it will not recognize that the
system has a cdrom drive.

i try to update drivers but it won't help... what must i
do? my pc has an LG 52max cdrom drive, and is Running
Winxp Pro with all the updates installed. please help me
out!

[R. C. White]

Hi, Emir.

For your "missing" floppy drive, the most obvious question is whether it has
been enabled in your computer's BIOS. Related questions: Does the light on
the drive flash as you are booting up? Did the floppy ever work in this
computer? In an earlier Win9x/ME configuration, perhaps?

As to the CD-ROM, I wonder if you need to permanently assign a drive letter
using Disk Management. WinXP has its own algorithm for assigning drive
letters, but these can get confused by just about any change in
configuration, even a temporary one, such as plugging or unplugging a USB
drive. Use Disk Management to assign a drive letter further away in the
alphabet from C:, D:, etc., typically used for hard drives. My system uses
V: for my DVD drive and W: for my CD-RW. Disk Management does many jobs,
including some that we used to do with Device Manager or the old DOS
programs FDISK and Format.exe.

What kind of interface does your CD-ROM use? IDE? SCSI? USB?

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP

"Emir Karakurt" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
> my problem is a very strange one indeed. Even though i
> have a floppy drive that is correctly connected to the
> system Windows XP insists on not recognizing it... i can
> not make the A: drive appear on the My Computer window. I
> check device manager and i can't see a floppy drive there
> either... how can i fix this?
>
> Also sometimes windows will 'forget' i have a cdrom
> drive, let's say i start up the system, the computer will
> see the cddrive and i can use it well... but when i try
> installing a program from a cd, when it asks for a cd
> change it sometimes forgets there's a cdrom drive
> connected when i insert the second cd and close the tray.
> the Cd-Rom/DVD-rom section in the Device manager is
> removed entirely and it will not recognize that the
> system has a cdrom drive.
>
> i try to update drivers but it won't help... what must i
> do? my pc has an LG 52max cdrom drive, and is Running
> Winxp Pro with all the updates installed. please help me
> out!