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Thread ID: 78486 2007-04-17 11:28:00 Loss of Ability to Save Data KenESmith (6287) Press F1
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541798 2007-04-17 11:28:00 I have just suffered a major problem on Saving Data to External Media.
My PC has suffered an apparent Floppy Drive Failure, but in conjunction with this, the CD drive fails to recognise that it is loaded with a Blank CD-R, giving the message to load a disk into the drive, and also fails to recognise when a USB Drive Memory Stick is loaded - similarly message to the CD Drive.
The CD Drive works OK if I load a music CD.
A bit of a mystery - unlikely that all three have failed simultaneously - would it be a software problem, or a component failure on the motherboard.
Ken
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541799 2007-04-17 13:26:00 I would remove them all from add remove hardware reboot and let windows reinstall them DeSade (984)
541800 2007-04-20 11:55:00 Thanks for the suggestion - it appears to have worked - Floppy drive is definitely out - message to that effect on boot up.
Ken
KenESmith (6287)
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