Re: Weird floppy on HP a475c

From: Thomas (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:06:56 -0500

Short of editing the floppy with the "advanced users" section, I have
done the other stuff. Newly formatted diskettes on Win98 and WinXP do
not work in the other system.

Phil (a.k.a. purplehaz) wrote:
> Floppy Disk is Not Accessible, Not Formatted, or Not Recognized by Windows
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-%20us;140060
>
> Thomas wrote:
>
>>Recently purchased an HP Pavilion a475c (at Sam's Club) with Windows
>>XP Home. I did all the Microsoft updates which I think brings it up
>>to SP1.
>>
>>I had not used the floppy drive before doing the updates. In the
>>process of transferring stuff over from an Win98SE system, I decided
>>to use the floppy. The WinXP machine will not read it. I can format
>>a diskette in the WinXP machine and successful write to it and open
>>the file that was written to it. Just tried to read that diskette on
>>another WinXP machine (Dell laptop) and it would not read it.
>>
>>Interaction with HP – they say (much longer) go to http://
>>downloads.viaarena.com/WinXPE/Oct02/XPe_3mflp132_v10.zip and install
>>the driver in that file. They gave instructions on how to do it.
>>
>>My questions:
>>
>>Are others experiencing the problem wherein the floppy drive, which
>>has been around for years, comes on a new computer and it does not
>>read the standard FAT format (I have confirmed that that is how the
>>WinXP machine says it is formatting the diskette)?
>>
>>Is there any danger in installing this driver? Yes it did come
>>recommended from HP, but I could find no reference to Viaarena with or
>>in my system.
>>
>>Just seems weird.
>>
>>Thanks for any thoughts.
>>
>>Thomas
>
>
>

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