re: Problems accessing floppy disc drives Friday, November 4, 2005 at 4:10 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steve Dunn (925 messages posted) Does the external USB drive work on other machines - because it sounds like the internal drive is dying, and needs replacing. If USB drive ok elsewhere, try disconnecting the internal drive before using the external one. On Friday, November 4, 2005 at 3:46 pm, NIGEL HADDOW wrote: >Each time I try to access a floppy disc I get an error messge either that the disc >requires formatting which it then states cannot be carried carried out or I sometimes >get the message that there is no disc in drive this happens on both the fitted drive >and on an external USB floppy.I try the same discs on another pc and they are fine. >I have tried uninstalling the drivers via control panel device manager and restarting >but the problem persists....any help appreciated! Written in response to: Problems accessing floppy disc drives (NIGEL HADDOW: Friday, November 4, 2005 at 3:46 pm) Responses to this message: re: Problems accessing floppy disc drives (Steve Dunn: Friday, November 4, 2005 at 4:28 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Problems accessing floppy disc drives (NIGEL HADDOW: Fri, Nov 4, 2005, 3:46 pm) re: Problems accessing floppy disc drives (Steve Dunn: Fri, Nov 4, 2005, 4:10 pm) re: Problems accessing floppy disc drives (Steve Dunn: Fri, Nov 4, 2005, 4:28 pm) re: Problems accessing floppy disc drives (David Karwowski: Fri, Nov 4, 2005, 5:26 pm) 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