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by dmcloud1 Apr 10, 2002 last reply Jul 9, 2002

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My a-drive is not accessible. I get a message that it is using ms dos. What can I do? I tried updating the drivers.

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by dmiles Apr 10, 2002

Open Device Manager and select floppy drive,click on properties and then click to remove the drive,reboot
Add New Hardware should show new hardware,choose to sekect the drive from list then proceed to install the floppy drive,if asked for disk you the operating system disk,to load the drive controllers.

by dmcloud1 Jul 9, 2002

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by rossenjohn Apr 13, 2002

check your bios,disable the Swap floppy drive option in bios features setup
good luck

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by hjs Apr 15, 2002

Answer 1 should work but does not answer the question. This has got to be a W9x machine. What it is telling you is that is is working in MS DOS Mode. It means that windows does not like something about the drive. Either the driver or the drive itself. If answer 1 does not work replace the drive.