Subj : Re: Hmmmm, Where is the floppy drive in XP? To : All From : gfretwell@aol.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:21 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.o rg!tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!newspeer1.n ac.net!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.gigan ews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:40:21 -0600 From: gfretwell@aol.com Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Hmmmm, Where is the floppy drive in XP? Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:39:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-1wywZjr8PVcCZCCedCJ5nSHAiC7uQLqhcVeQ0uMIIQcYMxjqZUc6ZUhlhKq2nblfbPeW3Yc9Aay 4d1I!UIRXaT0L5MYhHDTxFitmmk3pEt3IQtrLUBG4Z2W/W82B+Cj3Q9dcxblgumbxy22jkpf1TFI= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2048 Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134525 On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 06:27:43 -0600, james@nospam.com wrote: >I'm not used to having a floppy drive on an XP machine. >I plugged in a NEW floppy drive, which I just got in the mail. I used >that twist cable which I mentioned. (twist on drive end), and connected >the power cable. Everything is plugged in properly. > >I am not seeing the A: drive in My Computer. > >I am not sure where else it should show up. > >I confirmed this drive works by plugging it into the existing cables >connected to the internal floppy drive and it works fine. I read, wrote >and formatted a floppy. > >In XP, I went to control panel, hardware, and I can see the floppy >listed. It says it's working fine. > >I went to the command line, and typed A: >It says "Invalid drive specification". > >The only thing I can think is that maybe that cable is defective??? > 5 wire twist or 7 wire twist? Do you have the power cable plugged it? Did you boot the machine? Does it spin on the boot? --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .