That is a rather odd type of bug. Never heard of it before. But as long as
the shortcut works you're ok until finding a
proper ans.

"Julsie" <Julsie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> "My computer" does not recognize my floppy drive and very frequently the
> following message comes up " no disk in Drive-retry -- continue --
> cancel".
> And if I insert a floppy into the drive it does not work. However, if I
> create a shortcut on my desktop to the floppy drive, then I can get it to
> work when I insert a floppy disc. So, obviously, the problem is not in
> the
> drive itself or in its connections, but rather in that Windows XP doesn't
> recognize it for some reason. Any suggestions?