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.)