re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks'
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 at 2:58 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Nalin Saxena
(1 messages posted)
I have a similar problem in Win XP. I am not only able to see the contents but also
open files from the floppy drive using windows explorer even after i have removed
the last floppy. Refreshing does not work. The cache or temporary memory is cleared
only if i disable the floppy drive and enable it again.
On Thursday, February 19, 2004 at 7:23 pm, Mike wrote:
>I have experienced similar problems with disks on an XP Machine. This same machine
>previausly worked under NT perfectly well. After installing XP I could no longer
>read floppy disks. More: New floppys are rendered unusable after inserting them
in
>the drive for the first time. I can use them in many other PCs (WIN 98, WIN NT 4.0,
>etc, at work) until I feed them in this XP machine and it crashes. It's something
>on the XP, but it depends on the hardware, this does occur only in certain XP PCs.
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