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Floppy Drive Not in My Computer...
Name: Sabertooth Date: October 13, 2004 at 16:27:18 Pacific OS: XP Pro SP2 CPU/Ram: XP(m) 2600+ @ 2.42 / 768m
Comment:
I really do not recall how far back this began, because I rarely use the A: drive, but I did notice few weeks back and still have a yellow exclamation mark on the floppy drive in device manager which I totally ignored.
Double-clicking the drive gives me "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)". I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drive from normal and safemode a dozen times, the wizard detects the drive everytime, and then I get "A problem occurred during hardware installation. Your new hardware might not work properly".
I even tried this fix after turning off XP's file protection but no luck too. Any suggestions people as to how to get the drive back in My Computer folder.
Name: setishock Date: October 13, 2004 at 16:28:50 Pacific
Reply:
Your floppy may have bit the weenie. New ones run about 20 dollars.
I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid...
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Response Number 2
Name: per Date: October 13, 2004 at 16:29:01 Pacific
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Hi sabertooth. May be a bad drive or try sfc /scannow.
Please post back within 24 hours or I will delete the post from my follow up list. Thanks.
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Response Number 3
Name: Sabertooth Date: October 13, 2004 at 16:40:50 Pacific
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setishock,
I scavenged a nearby system for one but still no luck.
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Response Number 4
Name: Sabertooth Date: October 13, 2004 at 16:44:31 Pacific
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Anyone know a way or even some generic driver with an installer that can override what I got now?
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Response Number 5
Name: Chuck 2 Date: October 13, 2004 at 16:49:47 Pacific
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Maybe the driver is missing. Mine is
C:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\flpydisk.sys
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Response Number 6
Name: Sabertooth Date: October 13, 2004 at 17:09:09 Pacific
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WOW!....I just got it resolved, and I can't believe the fix was within the same link I had posted under the MORE INFO title at the bottom of the page......812489.
Now I have no moral grounds to defend my not wanting to spend that $20 on beer..... ;~).
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