Perhaps the disk is not formatted or is formatted in a manner your computer
doesn't recognize. Put your floppy disk in the drive and go to A: drive in
Windows Explore. Right click it and choose Format. This will insure the
floppy is formatted properly for your computer. Let us know if this helps.

"attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0414628A-C698-4924-AA11-286AE8DF87FC@microsoft.com...
>I replaced a faulty floppy drive with a new floppy drive. When I go to
>device
> manager it says the drive is working properly. It doesn't recognize
> floppies
> though. I put a floppy disc into it and it says to " please insert a
> floppy
> disc into A drive". There is already a floppy disc into A drive and it
> gives
> that message with any floppy that I put into it. Why is it not recognizing
> floppies? It ejects a floppy normally.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks, attilathehun1
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> attilathehun1