Re: Floppy drive no longer recognised.

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From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:36:16 -0500

Hard drives go bad with some regularity and people accept that fact (they
may not like the idea though). Floppy drives that cost $4-5 dollars to
manufacture may/do have the same problem?

I know one fellow who builds his own computers. He has been using the same
floppy drive since 1996 on successive computers and he complained when it
went south! (-: LOL 

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Regards,
Richard Urban
aka   Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Nick" <Nick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:EA4E5090-90EC-4240-B3FC-17E12E683EE1@microsoft.com...
>A couple of weeks ago my floppy drive dissappeared.....it is no longer
> possible to find it using "my computer" etc....I am not aware of any 
> changes
> being made to the computer and something similar happened (b4 Xmas) with 
> the
> cd drives (I fixed this with the help of a registry patch (obtained thru a
> link in newsgroups)) but I cant find anything that applies to floppies. I 
> run
> XP home with Norton Antivirus and SP2 and am starting to think about an
> electric abacus. Any helpful suggestions would be welcome.
> Thanks

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