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where oh where did my floppy drive go?

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by mseedii, 2003/12/28.

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  1. 2003/12/28
    mseedii

    mseedii Inactive Thread Starter

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    i switched motherboards and cpus and now i have a problem. i can't see the floppy drive under windows. it is active in the bios, i can use it to boot from a floppy, but once windows 2000 professional is full running i have no floppy drive. i've tried repairing the operating system, but the drive has not re-appeared. i'm thinking it is a corrupt registry. any hints, suggestions, directions will be appreciated
     
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  2. 2003/12/30
    Newt

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    Computer management~device manager and see what it says about the floppy in there.
     
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    mseedii

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    lost floppy

    device manager doesn't show it even exists.
     
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  5. 2004/01/01
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    In the device manager, right click any device and click on "Scan for hardware changes" and see if windows detects and installs the Floppy (Guess you've been down this path B4?)
     
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