re: Floppy drive not Reading or writing on XP Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 3:23 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gradders (37 messages posted) The MS Knowledge Base article is 140060. on http://support.micrsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;140060 John On Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 2:35 am, gradders wrote: > >Pauline, > >This problem has been aired here several times. (http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/r1068142310). >It is also mentioned as an issue on the MS Website. They speak about a media type >byte on the floppy. >I have tried all the suggestions in both places, but have not found a satisfactory >solution. >One rather technical solution offered here some months ago involved registry edits. >I have no problem doing the reg edits, but I could not find the key specified on >my machines. >I have this same problem on 7 machines with XP and have maintained one old laptop >with W98 and a WiFi connection to allow me to pick-up the historical data from the >disks. >As a default in UK, Dell do not sell machines any longer with a floppy drive, I do >not know if it is cost cutting, or they know about the problem!! >Sorry to be so gloomy on this, I would also welcome a workable solution from anybody. >John > Written in response to: re: Floppy drive not Reading or writing on XP (gradders: Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 2:35 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Floppy drive not Reading or writing on XP (Pauline Brighton: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 12:45 am) re: Floppy drive not Reading or writing on XP (gradders: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 2:35 am) re: Floppy drive not Reading or writing on XP (gradders: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 3:23 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum