No floppy drive since XP loaded

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From: deneb (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 08:26:01 -0700

Me, too. No floppy drive detected since XP and SP2
loaded onto my Dell Inspiron 600m. Also lost my mouse.
Help!

>-----Original Message-----
>I have just installed XP pro on my Toshiba 1800 laptop
and
>now don't have an 'A' drive. HAve removed and
reinstalled
>came back with fault code 39 corrupt or missing
>driver,Flpydisk.sys removed this file from
>windows/../drivers and replaced still no good tried to
>update BIOS but need a floppy drive for the batch file
>PLEASE HELP NOTHING HELPS
>.
>

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