Re: Not installing floppy drive

I wanted to add a postscript. The floppy drive did finally install correctly. What happened?

When I plugged in the USB floppy, it greased the skids and the internal floppy appeared in "My Computer". I decided to keep the USB floppy since I had already pulled the internal floppy.

Some Operating Systems need a good swift kick in the ...

X

MAP wrote: 

"X Analyst" wrote:


Go figure! I thought installing a floppy drive was the simplest of hardware tasks.

OS: Win XP Home
Model: Dell Dimension 3000
Floppy: Samsung SFD-321B

Symptom is the floppy shows up in system/hardware window, but not in "My Computer".

1. I enabled floppy in BIOS.
2. Connected power and bus.
3. Status in system/hardware shows good.

Why does the drive not show up in the File System?



About a year ago I installed a USB external burner and had the same problem as you are,turns out I didn't have the new drive checked in tweakUI.
Do you use TweakUI? 
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