Floppy Drive XP

**Biggun** · 12-02-08, 06:39 PM

Hey there, after a format, fresh install of XP, the floppy drive wont read discs. no error messages, just does nothing. I have checked in device manager, and floppy has no yellow question marks. Tried updating driver (using windows update driver thingy) and it says that the device is enabled and working. I cant seem to find a brand or model number either, to look for driver.

Cheers

**ssrattus** · 12-02-08, 07:56 PM

Check for resources conflicts. open control panel, System, Device Manager tab and click on the floppy drive controller and right click on standard floppy controller and check the properties, resources tab and see if there are any conflicts, normally IRQ 6 and DMA 2 are for floppies.

or

Reboot into safe made and see if it works then... if it does there is some driver conflict.

or a long shot... this is usually an unrecognised CDROM problem...

Click Start, click Run type regedit, and then click OK.

Locate the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E980-E325 11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} if you have the right key you will see floppy drives mentioned in the right pane.

If in the right pane you have Upperfilters then click Upperfilters, and then press DELETE.

When you are prompted to do so, click Yes to confirm the deletion.

If you don't have Upperfilters entry then this is not the problem and you won't need to continue here.

In the right pane, click Lowerfilters, and then press DELETE.

When you are prompted to do so, click Yes to confirm the deletion

Restart your computer.

If the issue still exists, repeat to delete upper and lower filter entries for the following registry subkeys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Cl ass\{4D36E980-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Cl ass\{4D36E980-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Then, open Device Manager. if your floppy disk drives are still listed, remove them, and then restart the computer and let xp re-install the floppy drive.

**Biggun** · 13-02-08, 07:39 PM

Sorry for the slow reply ssrattus, tried all of those tricks and still wont recognise a floppy. not the end of the world, but would like to get it going. Any other ideas anyone?

**ssrattus** · 13-02-08, 07:49 PM

If it doesn't work in safe mode then all that is left is really the drive itself, cables or bios. If the drive is ok you should be able to boot up to it. Do you have a boot floppy or another PC with floppy to create one?

**Biggun** · 13-02-08, 08:01 PM

i havent got a boot floppy, but have got a floppy in another computer. How would one go about making a boot floppy?

**ssrattus** · 13-02-08, 09:08 PM

Place floppy in the drive.
Open My Computer, right-click the A: drive and click Format.
In the Format window, check Create an MS-DOS startup disk.
Click Start