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floppy disk drive disappeared from my system

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floppy disk drive icon is just disappeared from device manager and also from my computer folder which has list of drives and removable media.if i type A:\ in run command prompt it says it is unavailable plz suggest how to enable it

Name: wanderer
Date: August 19, 2009 at 12:39:24 Pacific

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Is it listed in the bios? Sounds like perhaps the drive died. You can test by putting in a boot diskette, setting bios to boot a: first, to see if it will read the floppy.

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Check floppy disk drive cables. Might have come loose or detached.

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thank you all,i have enabled floppy drive in bios. i request all of you to stop giving suggestions to this resolved issue.once again thank you all

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