Welcome to Vista Banter. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions, articles and access our other FREE features. By joining our free community you will have access to ask questions and reply to others posts, upload your own photos and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact support. |
|
Hardware and Windows Vista Hardware issues in relation to Windows Vista. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices) |
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
|||
Floppy Drive won't recognize disks
Vista shows my floppy drive as drive A and the device manager says that the
drive and the drive controller are working properly. However, when I attempt to read, write, format a disk vista reports the the drive has no disk in it. I changed the drive, bought new disks and this did not help. Any suggestions ? Thanks !! |
|
|||
Floppy Drive won't recognize disks
"daelu" wrote in message
... Vista shows my floppy drive as drive A and the device manager says that the drive and the drive controller are working properly. However, when I attempt to read, write, format a disk vista reports the the drive has no disk in it. I changed the drive, bought new disks and this did not help. Any suggestions ? Thanks !! Not a solution, but I just wonder why on EARTH you are still using floppy disks......... |
|
|||
Floppy Drive won't recognize disks
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 06:15:03 -0700, daelu
wrote: Vista shows my floppy drive as drive A and the device manager says that the drive and the drive controller are working properly. However, when I attempt to read, write, format a disk vista reports the the drive has no disk in it. I changed the drive, bought new disks and this did not help. Any suggestions ? Thanks !! If you're going to use floppies, you should always have some bootable (to DOS) floppy diskettes on hand. If you can boot the computer to DOS, then the hardware is functional. |
|
|||
Floppy Drive won't recognize disks
There are still uses for them. I still make sure a new desktop has one.
Whether it is a password disk or I am installing a copy of Win9x/ME into a new virtual machine a floppy is useful yet. "Gordon" wrote in message ... "daelu" wrote in message ... Vista shows my floppy drive as drive A and the device manager says that the drive and the drive controller are working properly. However, when I attempt to read, write, format a disk vista reports the the drive has no disk in it. I changed the drive, bought new disks and this did not help. Any suggestions ? Thanks !! Not a solution, but I just wonder why on EARTH you are still using floppy disks......... |
|
|||
Floppy Drive won't recognize disks
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message
... There are still uses for them. I still make sure a new desktop has one. Whether it is a password disk or I am installing a copy of Win9x/ME into a new virtual machine a floppy is useful yet. Most new machines in the past two years or so have a BIOS that will boot from a USB memory stick.......I still say floppies are now completely obsolete..... |
|
|||
Floppy Drive won't recognize disks
That's your take on it. There is legacy stuff that wants a floppy period.
I have done more than enough beta testing that things like floppy drives and PS/2 ports make sense to me yet. "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... There are still uses for them. I still make sure a new desktop has one. Whether it is a password disk or I am installing a copy of Win9x/ME into a new virtual machine a floppy is useful yet. Most new machines in the past two years or so have a BIOS that will boot from a USB memory stick.......I still say floppies are now completely obsolete..... |
|
|||
Floppy Drive won't recognize disks
Thanks for the suggestions
"andy" wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 06:15:03 -0700, daelu wrote: Vista shows my floppy drive as drive A and the device manager says that the drive and the drive controller are working properly. However, when I attempt to read, write, format a disk vista reports the the drive has no disk in it. I changed the drive, bought new disks and this did not help. Any suggestions ? Thanks !! If you're going to use floppies, you should always have some bootable (to DOS) floppy diskettes on hand. If you can boot the computer to DOS, then the hardware is functional. |
|
|||
Floppy Drive won't recognize disks
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:51:33 -0600, "Colin Barnhorst"
wrote: There are still uses for them. I still make sure a new desktop has one. Whether it is a password disk or I am installing a copy of Win9x/ME into a new virtual machine a floppy is useful yet. "Gordon" wrote in message ... "daelu" wrote in message ... Vista shows my floppy drive as drive A and the device manager says that the drive and the drive controller are working properly. However, when I attempt to read, write, format a disk vista reports the the drive has no disk in it. I changed the drive, bought new disks and this did not help. Any suggestions ? Thanks !! Not a solution, but I just wonder why on EARTH you are still using floppy disks......... I also wanted one with my new Desktop, but for some reason, when the builder connected one to the motherboard, the machine refused to boot. Only later did I find that even though there is a floppy controller on my Intel motherboard, it is not compatible with the motherboard itself. Result: I don't have a floppy. (which makes it very hard to install Windows XP on my motherboard, since the RAID drivers for my motherboard are only supplied on a floppy.) |
|
|||
Floppy Drive won't recognize disks
Got a question I want to shotgun to the board. I have scores, or maybe even hundreds of old 1.44 floppy discs on which I used to back up my data. However, I haven't had a floppy drive in my last 3 or 4 PCs. I'm thinking about buying one of those external floppy drives to see if I can salvage some of the old data (primarily pictures & music) for use on my Vista OS machine. Has anyone tried this and if so, can you recommend an external floppy drive that will work with Vista? -- sooner1938 |