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| Thread ID: 121326 | 2011-10-20 21:47:00 | Floppy on New WIN7 not recognised. | Bryan (147) | Press F1 |
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| 1238956 | 2011-10-20 21:47:00 | Finally got a good WIN7 setup but the floppy is not recognised. Device manager sees it but Windows Explorer doesn't and I can't load a small program. Is this because of a Security issue or a setup problem? Can someone advise please? |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1238957 | 2011-10-20 21:53:00 | Could be a bad floppy disc. Was it formatted on the Win 7 system? | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1238958 | 2011-10-20 21:57:00 | No. It is a MS games disk. The point is that it works on my main system. When I go into Windows Explorer, the A: drive does not appear but the HDDs do. It is something to do with the system setup (at least that's what I think). |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1238959 | 2011-10-20 22:01:00 | It also may mean that the tracking is different on the floppy disk. Can you copy it by formatting a new floppy and then put that in the working system? | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1238960 | 2011-10-20 22:11:00 | But why would the explorer recognise all the other drives and not the A:? | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1238961 | 2011-10-20 22:15:00 | Tracking. Try formatting a new floppy disk on the Win 7 system. Can it be read? |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1238962 | 2011-10-20 22:27:00 | I used the run Format A: cmd. It came back that the system could not format this drive. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1238963 | 2011-10-20 22:31:00 | So does it show in the BIOS then? | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1238964 | 2011-10-20 22:36:00 | Good point. I'm running something at the moment so will look as son as I can. If it isn't in the BIOS, is there something I need to do to get it there? | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1238965 | 2011-10-20 22:43:00 | Yes. Tell the BIOS it has one. It should be on the first page. | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
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