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September 10th, 2007 23:00

no Floppy Driver

hello :)

I recently wiped out / reformatted my entire hard drive. now I don't have any Floppy Driver.

I was able to install all my other drivers. graphics driver, sound driver, ect ect. but I can't find out how to get my floppy driver. in "My Computer" there's no "A:\" listed.
I've been told the Floppy Driver is supposed to just always be on your system, it's in your systems Database and you never need to 'install' it..
But i wiped out my HD via overwriting methods.. so it's gone now

I've popped in the 'Dell Resource CD', which is supposed to have all main system drivers, but there's no Floppy Driver listed on it.
can anyone help me out? I've searched the internet. can't find anything.
this has actually happened before, but I forgot how I fixed it.

PS. I don't want any 3rd party drivers.. I know they exist, but I just want the default floppy driver I used to have!
specs: Dell Dimension 2400, Windows XP sp2

thanks

Message Edited by unsober on 09-10-2007 07:16 PM
  • RoHe

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    Posted September 10th, 2007 23:00

    Assuming this is an intermal floppy drive, not USB, run BIOS setup (F2 before XP starts to load) and make sure you didn't disable the floppy driver controller on the motherboard. Save any changes to BIOS and exit setup.

    Ron
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    Posted September 11th, 2007 02:00

    wow, that was pretty simple. thanks.
    weird how it disabled itself like that though
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    Posted September 11th, 2007 16:00

    Glad it was an easy fix. :)

    Floppy 'disabled' is the default BIOS setting, so if you reset BIOS to factory defaults (cleared 'CMOS' or 'NVRAM') you turned the controller off. ;)

    Ron