Re: XP Home ruined my floppy drive!
From: Len Segal (msn_news_at_ne_ws.oom)
Date: 08/26/04
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:13:45 -0400
As long as you can specify Where to look for additional drivers, why not
burn them to a CD and use that when you need to insert the additional
drivers? [It's been so long since I had to add additional drivers, that I'm
no longer 100% positive that you can select the location other than "A:", so
I'm offering this suggestion under the assumption that the OS install will
let you specify location of drivers.]
-- Regards, Len Segal, MCP Microsoft - MVP -------------- My reply address is intentionally wrong to reduce SPAM Email. NOTE: We do not respond to unsolicited Email support questions, please post questions in newsgroup. "Purple" <vaitkus@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:d9a19377.0408250955.2df4f606@posting.google.com... > "D.Currie" <dmbcurrie.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:<2p2l81Fg8t2aU1@uni-berlin.de>... >> "Purple" <vaitkus@pacbell.net> wrote in message >> news:d9a19377.0408241439.214d492e@posting.google.com... >> > null <null@planetzero.com> wrote in message >> > news:<utR2RqgiEHA.596@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>... >> > >> >> It is essentially impossible for an OS to destroy a floppy drive. >> > >> > That is what i thought too but it has happened with two drives now and >> > i cannot think of another explanation. Care to offer one? >> >> Here's one: as floppy disks and floppy drives are becoming essentially >> obsolete, quality is not a huge consideration. Last time I bought bulk >> floppy disks, quite a few were dead on the first try, some fell apart -- >> literally -- after a few insertions, some failed after one or two boots, >> and >> some are working after multiple uses over months. These were name brand >> disks. Years ago, I would have expected floppy disk failure to be >> minimal. >> But that was in the days when floppies were the back-up medium of choice, >> and they had to be reliable. >> >> A bad floppy disk could conceivably ruin a drive, or it could be that the >> drive itself was just cheap and flawed. Manufacturers figure you're not >> going to use it often, so they can get away with the cheapest floppy >> drives >> possible. Even if it's under warranty, the chance of you bothering to >> return >> it is slim, considering how cheap the replacements are. > > I have about 5 floppy drives in PC's in my house and none of them have > failed. Some have worked for years although I rarely use them. > > My friend has had 3 drives in two computers and all of the drives have > failed after as little as 1 use. I suppose this could be coincidence > but it seems extreme to me to suggest some repeatable cause. Since the > only thing that is the same in both is systems in XP Home, it looked > like the most likely culprit. > > Note that the disks are fine. They work in other floppy drives whereas > good disks do not work in the failed drives no matter what machine > they are in. > > Microsoft has a knowledge base article on their lack of support for > some floppy drives in XP (so-called tri-mode drives) so I suspected an > OS problem or perhaps a motherboard problem. But the same drives that > worked at first now fail to work in other non-XP machines as well so I > concluded the floppy drives were toast. A mean-time-to-failure of 1 is > pretty hard to believe for such an old, stable piece of hardware. > > Oh well, we will buy more floppy drives and keep trying. > > Then again, none of this would even be necessary if Microsoft would > include SATA and RAID drivers on their install CD.
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