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Disappearing floppy drive after SP6...

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by njanear

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My NT box suffered a horrific blue screen death(after I tried to install a web cam against manufacturers suggestions...), brought it back to life with an ERD from another NT box, pretty much everything still there and working. Well low and behold Irealized I don't have a floppy drive (no icon) it won't start in services (error 0020, device not found), did all the usual tech net searches etc. I have a HP Vectra PIII X386 SP6, I think it's the SP6 that killed it believe it or not, I found a thread on BrainBuzz that seems to have the same circumstances; http://networking.brainbuzz.com/boards/viewmessage.asp?b=S2B15&bm=SM38528&mp=1&mx=30&md=1&st=2&sd=1&np=1&rt=0(same
I also have a 3Com905B-Tx

Thanks in advance,

Doc

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by dmiles

Try doing a manual reinstall through the device manager screen,donot let windows detect the new hardware,select from list and see if this works.One other thing to try go to CMOS control panel and check to see if the device is enabled.

by avidetto

Try looking in your reg., check the error code againt the install..ie, E3 would mean that the system did not finish the upgrade, you you got half way through the install & something failed this will tell you that could cause the error. If the above doesn't work..hack into the reg. & delete the refrence to the sp6 in the HCU then delete the direcotry & rerun the SP6 install this will allow it to go on through & should restore your sytsems to normal/ ie, allow the service to start..the other thing is check the dates on the Dll/ocx's in your system dir..if they did not get updated, all you may need to do regsvr32 the correct dll inplace and that may take care of it..thanks -Al

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