Floppy Drive

[Walter D]

I can not access my floppy drive since changing to XP
home edition. It won't even format the floppy in the
drive. What can I do?

[R. C. White]

Hi, Walter.

HOW have you tried to access or format your floppy drive? You don't by
chance have TweakUI installed, do you? If so, check to see that you don't
have Drive A: set to not display. Also, check in your BIOS settings to be
sure that you have the floppy drive properly activated.

To format a floppy in WinXP, click My Computer, then RIGHT-click on Drive
A:. (You'll need to have a diskette in the drive.) Note that you can make
an MS-DOS boot floppy from this menu, but it won't be able to read NTFS, of
course, and it won't be able to boot into WinXP. You CAN make a floppy that
will bypass the system partition and boot WinXP, but that's not what you
were asking.

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

Microsoft Windows MVP

"Walter D" > wrote in message
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>I can not access my floppy drive since changing to XP
> home edition. It won't even format the floppy in the
> drive. What can I do?