"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?

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?

Julsie <Julsie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>"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?

I've always had problems with floppies under XP (all my installations
of XP).

As mention'd whatever works, I find working on floppies thru the CMD
faster and less prone to problems

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In news:5D23A2E7-9CE1-414B-8042-357CE130A717@microsoft.com,
Julsie had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> "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?

Enter your setup (pre-boot) to CMOS and adjust the floppy's settings to
DISABLE three-mode support. Use just the 1.44 setting. That *generally* does
the trick.

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