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June 12th, 2002, 11:51 PM
#1
Issue with WIN 2000
I have a customer who has WIN 2000 installed. Everything works, but he has no icon for 3 1/2 Floppy. It is enabled in bios (floppy controller & floppy 1.44} It will boot off the floppy. In WIN 2000 it is set up in device manager {controller & standard floppy} I've tried the drive in another computer and it works. Changed cables & mini plug.Updated all drivers and WIN 2000. Ran on-line virus check. It is WIN 2000 PRO. Is there a setting in WIN 2000 that would cause this?? What am I missing? Would it be a legacy device and WIN 2000 doesn't want to deal with it? Some specs: 512 Ram, 1.8 GHz AMD biostar MB, Creative sound card, DVD, CD-RW, 60 GB HD.I would like to hear some suggestions or info on WIN 2000 Tomorrow I am going to flash the bios.
Thank-You
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June 13th, 2002, 12:47 AM
#2
Registered User
Boy, that's an odd one. Is the drive or controller disabled in dev manager?
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June 13th, 2002, 03:13 AM
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No, they are set up correctly (controller & drive) I deleted them and reinstalled. I also have reinstalled WIN 2000. I just know I am missing a setting, but what? I admit that I don't know enough about WIN 2000..
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June 13th, 2002, 06:37 AM
#4
Did you try a different cable?
Try a new drive.
Indeterminism. There's nothing you can do about it.
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June 13th, 2002, 08:30 AM
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Registered User
I may be off here but a couple of thoughts:
Is the floppy drive accesable in safe mode?
Have you checked that the administrator has not disabled access to the drive?
Enable boot logging and look for anything odd.
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June 14th, 2002, 06:41 AM
#6
Banned
This is what I was thinking...
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q231289" target="_blank">Using Group Policy Objects to Hide Specified Drives in My Computer for Windows 2000 (Q231289)</a>
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June 14th, 2002, 03:35 PM
#7
Registered User
Can you boot to it with a boot disk ? Sorry, should have read closer. I see it now.
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great." - Golda Meir
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June 14th, 2002, 06:52 PM
#8
Use tweak ui, on the My Computer tab, I think. Its the page with all the drives listed with the check boxes next to them.
If it shows the drive as being shown, remove it, reboot, then put it back.
I have had the same problem before and that took care of it.
Those who do not know, are lost...
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June 14th, 2002, 06:53 PM
#9
Those who do not know, are lost...
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June 15th, 2002, 06:47 PM
#10
Thank-You everyone. I was told that Win 2000 will not support that type of floppy (older}. I don't really believe it, but thr customer did get a second opinion and this tech seemed like he knew Win 2000. So at this time I will accept this and he can take over. I need more hands on with Win 2000 before I can argue. Most of my customers are Win 98 home users. Has anyone else heard of this? Thank-you again...
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June 16th, 2002, 08:17 AM
#11
Banned
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Tkcomputer:
<strong>Thank-You everyone. I was told that Win 2000 will not support that type of floppy (older}. I don't really believe it, but thr customer did get a second opinion and this tech seemed like he knew Win 2000. So at this time I will accept this and he can take over. I need more hands on with Win 2000 before I can argue. Most of my customers are Win 98 home users. Has anyone else heard of this? Thank-you again...</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think you have been snowed. But I could be wrong...
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June 16th, 2002, 09:09 AM
#12
quote :I was told that Win 2000 will not support that type of floppy (older}. ,,,
3 and a bit (1.44) is the "latest" (in use in the western world) ,,,had it have been a 720k (3 and a bit) or a 360 , 5 and a bit then i could understand.
i,ve just looked at my floppy (in explorer on 2k) and yes its a 1.44 ,,
i think somebodys pulling your ding-a-ling,
FTF
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June 16th, 2002, 01:10 PM
#13
Registered User
I definatly smell bacon here,
I had a new 31/2" [1.4Mb]and an older 5"[1.2Mb]floppy drive in a dual W2K/98 system with no problem accessing drives in either OS.
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June 17th, 2002, 11:14 AM
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You say "I was told that Win 2000 will not support that type of floppy (older}."
Well, that's just a fancy expression for "I'm a tech that doesn't know much, and can't figure out your problem so I'm giving you the bullsh*t brushoff in hopes you'll believe it and go away."
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