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Floppy Missing in My Computer!

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by jcbigdaddy

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Recently installed SP2 to Win2kpro! Now the floppy drive is gone in My Computer! Device manager says it can't load the driver for the device! Floppy works fine if I use a boot disk to bring up the system! Could I have a registry problem? If so, where do I look for correct setting?

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by haywood_rick

One gotcha that happend to me, If you are using Explorer maximize the window. Sometimes it can get pushed out of site or even rearrange or under another icon, make sure you have auto arrange enabled.

by jcbigdaddy

Sorry, The floppy device is showing a device manager error code 31! Windows is not loading the device driver for some reason!

by evansed1

Uninstall the driver, and then reboot the station. It should try to reload the floppy driver. I've had this happen before that usually takes care of the problem.
Of course, it may have failed about the time you installed the SP2. Coincidences do occur.

by jcbigdaddy

I did uninstall the driver in device manager! When I reboot Windows detects the floppy & says that FLPYDISK.SYS is the correct driver, but it still has a message in device manager! "This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load thedrivers required for this device." (code 31)Have not been able to find any info regarding missing floppy in Microsoft's knowledge base!

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