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From: james@nospam.com
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Subject: Re: Hmmmm, Where is the floppy drive in XP?
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:58:54 -0600
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:39:54 -0500, gfretwell@aol.com wrote:

>On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 06:27:43 -0600, james@nospam.com wrote:
>
>>I'm not used to having a floppy drive on an XP machine. 
>>I plugged in a NEW floppy drive, which I just got in the mail. I used
>>that twist cable which I mentioned. (twist on drive end), and connected
>>the power cable. Everything is plugged in properly.
>>
>>I am not seeing the A: drive in My Computer. 
>>
>>I am not sure where else it should show up.
>>
>>I confirmed this drive works by plugging it into the existing cables
>>connected to the internal floppy drive and it works fine. I read, wrote
>>and formatted a floppy. 
>>
>>In XP, I went to control panel, hardware, and I can see the floppy
>>listed. It says it's working fine. 
>>
>>I went to the command line, and typed A:
>>It says "Invalid drive specification".
>>
>>The only thing I can think is that maybe that cable is defective??? 
>>
>
>5 wire twist or 7 wire twist?

SEVEN
(why do they make two different types?)
The one which works on my Win98 puter is also SEVEN.

>Do you have the power cable plugged it? 

Yes

>Did you boot the machine? 

Yes, several times

>Does it spin on the boot?

No

Just for the heck of it, I booted a linux flash drive. I dont see A: or
B: in there either.

However, I am now wondering if it could be possible that something in
the bios needs to be changed? I know I have it set to boot from a flash
drive FIRST, then the HDD, and lastly the CD player. But since this
computer has never had a floppy drive, maybe there is some bios setting
to change????? 
I would have looked already, but I cant remember what key to hit to get
into the bios. Its a homemade computer so looking that up may be tricky.
I think I need to start putting labels on every computer saying what key
needs to be pressed to go to the bios.
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