A disc got stuck in floppy drive of laptop (HP Omnibook xe4100) I managed to get it out using a thin knife blade but now the drive won’t accept new discs. I am trying to replace the drive with an external floppy drive. I bought the correct external floppy drive with the required cable. I plugged the cable into the Parallel port and booted the machine but windows XP does not detect its presence. I tried de-installing the printer (that previously occupied this port) but this did not help. I then enterred the BIOS screen using F2 during the boot process but did not see anything to change that would help me.
I really do not want to take the machine apart and rip out the old floppy drive and would greatly appreciate it if someone could let me know what I need to do. I am not used to making changes to the BIOS, so please give it to me in byte sized steps, if possible.
Thanks