Floppy disks not working at all since SP2

[labradors]

Hello.

The following is true for three systems that I use - one is mine, the other two belong to a friend, but I do the admin for them. Please read this information thoroughly to avoid asking me questions to which I've already provided the answers:

O.S. is XP-Home (yes...all three are legal)
Floppy disks worked BEFORE installing SP2
Floppy disks have not worked at all SINCE installing SP2
Everything else works fine
In my recent testing, I have tried:
Floppies that have worked before
Floppies that are brand new from a box from which I had used disks before
Floppies that are brand new from a previously unopened box
Reading old floppies (XP says the disks are not formatted and asks if I wish to format them
Writing to old floppies (same as above)
Formatting old or new floppies (the progress bar never proceeds, but after a short wait, Windows says it is unable to complete the format)

It has been several weeks since the SP2 installation, but we hadn't needed to try the floppies until now (ironically, we're trying to create a boot disk for someone else's damaged NT system)
The drives have been cleaned, etc.
The Device Manager does not show any problems with the hardware or the drivers (which are all up-to-date).
No viruses or spyware are detected on any of the systems, and all are running the latest versions of ZoneAlarm-Pro, Ad-Aware, and SpyBot, and are fully updated.

Thanks!
--Rob

[labradors]

Oops...forgot to include the following:

Have checked all hardware, cables, and connectors, including trying other floppy drives

[Smiling face]

Try to reinstall the floppy controller driver. On control
panel->system->hardware->device manager->Floppy controller Right click and
choose uninstall. Restart your computer.

"labradors" wrote:

>
> Oops...forgot to include the following:
>
>
> - Have checked all hardware, cables, and connectors, including trying
> other floppy drives
>
>
> --
> labradors
>

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

labradors wrote:
> Hello.
>
> The following is true for three systems that I use - one is mine, the
> other two belong to a friend, but I do the admin for them. Please
> read this information thoroughly to avoid asking me questions to
> which I've already provided the answers:
>
>
> - O.S. is XP-Home (yes...all three are legal)
> - Floppy disks worked BEFORE installing SP2
> - Floppy disks have not worked at all SINCE installing SP2
> - Everything else works fine
> - In my recent testing, I have tried:
>
> - Floppies that have worked before
> - Floppies that are brand new from a box from which I had used
> disks before
> - Floppies that are brand new from a previously unopened box
> - Reading old floppies (XP says the disks are not formatted and
> asks if I wish to format them
> - Writing to old floppies (same as above)
> - Formatting old or new floppies (the progress bar never proceeds,
> but after a short wait, Windows says it is unable to complete the
> format)
>
> - It has been several weeks since the SP2 installation, but we hadn't
> needed to try the floppies until now (ironically, we're trying to
> create a boot disk for someone else's damaged NT system)
> - The drives have been cleaned, etc.
> - The Device Manager does not show any problems with the hardware or
> the drivers (which are all up-to-date).
> - No viruses or spyware are detected on any of the systems, and all
> are running the latest versions of ZoneAlarm-Pro, Ad-Aware, and
> SpyBot, and are fully updated.
>
> Thanks!
> --Rob


SP2's irrelevant. The floppy drive is probably shot. I gave up using one
years ago - buy a pen drive. 1GB for £50 - that's 730 floppies' worth of
storage in a unit smaller than a highlighter - and a helluva lot cheaper!
Allowing 20p per floppy (not out of the way) that's £146 (nearly three times
as much). I've even bought pen drives for my parents - and they're
technosaurs! Now they can't manage without them! There are many good reasons
to ditch the floppy: -

- Price
- Reliability (those things are tough! PC Format, here in the UK, boiled,
whacked with golf clubs, drove over, gave them to the Editor's dog (GSDs
aren't gentle!) sent them through the washer (40°C long spin) and dryer
(80°C high for an hour) and of the five - and, astonishingly, three were
still read/writable at the end!) You couldn't do that with a floppy! It
wouldn't get past the first hurdle).
- Capacity
- Size (where would you store all those floppies?)
- Portability
- Truly plug and play
The floppy is dead! Long live the pen drive!



--
Facon - the artificial bacon bits you get in Pizza Hut for sprinkling
on salads.

[labradors]

Try to reinstall the floppy controller driver. On control
panel-system-hardware-device manager-Floppy controller Right click and
choose uninstall. Restart your computer.

Will try again.

[labradors]

SP2's irrelevant. The floppy drive is probably shot.

You're answer is irrelevant. In fact, it's obvious you didn't even bother to read my entire post, since I clearly stated that this was happening on several machines on which the floppy drives had been working prior to the installation of SP2 (and I mean hours or days, not years).

You couldn't do that with a floppy!

The reason I need to use the floppy drive is to create a bootable floppy for someone else's non-functional NT system that has neither USB nor a working CD drive. You couldn't do that with a pen drive!

Pay attention to the question, answer the question that is asked, or take your advertising elsewhere!

[Trent©]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:45:30 +0000, labradors
> wrote:

>
>Hello.
>
>The following is true for three systems that I use - one is mine, the
>other two belong to a friend, but I do the admin for them. Please read
>this information thoroughly to avoid asking me questions to which I've
>already provided the answers:
>
>
>- O.S. is XP-Home (yes...all three are legal)
>- Floppy disks worked BEFORE installing SP2
>- Floppy disks have not worked at all SINCE installing SP2
>- Everything else works fine
>- In my recent testing, I have tried:
>
> - Floppies that have worked before
> - Floppies that are brand new from a box from which I had used
> disks before
> - Floppies that are brand new from a previously unopened box
> - Reading old floppies (XP says the disks are not formatted and
> asks if I wish to format them
> - Writing to old floppies (same as above)
> - Formatting old or new floppies (the progress bar never proceeds,
> but after a short wait, Windows says it is unable to complete the
> format)
>
>- It has been several weeks since the SP2 installation, but we hadn't
> needed to try the floppies until now (ironically, we're trying to
> create a boot disk for someone else's damaged NT system)
>- The drives have been cleaned, etc.
>- The Device Manager does not show any problems with the hardware or
> the drivers (which are all up-to-date).
>- No viruses or spyware are detected on any of the systems, and all
> are running the latest versions of ZoneAlarm-Pro, Ad-Aware, and
> SpyBot, and are fully updated.

Completely UNINSTALL all the 3 above...then reinstall until you find
out which is the culprit. THEY are not really the culprit...but only
in conjunction with sp2. Its sp2 that has caused the problem.

Or...try disabling all network protection in sp2...including pop-ups.

Or...get the latest chipset drivers for that mainboard and reinstall
them.


Have a nice one...

Trent

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