re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 8:35 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by ComputerUser (1 messages posted) This worked. I had the exact same problem. I took the case off and sure enough, the wire had come out on one side. Slid the wire back in and my problem is resolved. Sometimes, things like humidity can cause a wire to come loose - even on new computers. On Friday, February 13, 2004 at 4:46 am, dylan_73 wrote: > >New or not, it sounds like one of the aforementioned problems. Maybe a cable slipped >loose in delivery? If you think it might be a software problem, try creating a boot >disk on another machine, and boot your machine from it. If it can't read that, then >you know it's hardware. > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (dylan_73: Friday, February 13, 2004 at 4:46 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (BrokenMind: Sunday, April 3, 2005 at 8:51 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (melanie r: Mon, Jan 6, 2003, 7:11 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Bob B: Mon, Jan 6, 2003, 7:14 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (melanie r: Mon, Jan 6, 2003, 7:19 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Tom Swanson: Mon, Jan 6, 2003, 11:57 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Debbie Rockhill: Wed, Mar 12, 2003, 12:42 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (John A. Johnson: Sun, May 18, 2003, 4:11 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Trinnyg: Sun, Jun 15, 2003, 5:56 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (stefan: Sat, Jun 28, 2003, 4:08 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (MasterBoot: Mon, Oct 6, 2003, 1:50 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (dylan_73: Wed, Jan 14, 2004, 9:48 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Tx_DreamWeaver: Fri, Feb 13, 2004, 2:48 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (dylan_73: Fri, Feb 13, 2004, 4:46 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Mike: Thu, Feb 19, 2004, 7:23 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Nalin Saxena: Wed, Feb 25, 2004, 2:58 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (FrustratedMonkey: Fri, Jan 21, 2005, 8:06 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (ComputerUser: Tue, Jan 11, 2005, 8:35 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (BrokenMind: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 8:51 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Joe Sweeney: Wed, Jan 26, 2005, 2:29 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Zzzzz: Thu, Feb 2, 2006, 5:10 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (patrick: Wed, Mar 15, 2006, 1:06 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