Re: Floppy drive

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From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 20:01:48 +1000

"Pat" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1a0d801c44df6$19ce2390$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I have a floppy drive in my IBM thinkpad.
> Windows 2000 cannot read the floppy disk in it.
> The error message tells me there is a conflict with
> something else, but not what it is.
>
> I tested the floppy drive itself by putting a disk in it
> before I booted the computer. I was told it was not a
> system disk (which it wasn't) so I knew the drive itself
> is working.
>
> The system has the service packs installed and everything
> else is working.
>
> How can I fix it?
>
> Pat.
>
>

Your test is not really valid. To prove that your disk drive
works, you must get it to read something meaningful.
Use a floppy disk of known quality & contents, or boot
the machine with a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com
(which you will have to manufacture on some other PC).

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