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I have floppys with "stuff" that I need access to.
The floppy drive appears in Windows Explorer.
Inserting a floppy and clicking the drive in WE yields "Please insert a floppy disk...." error message.
I have 2 systems with W7 and floppy drives. Neither one is accessible via W7. I can boot the system with Hiren's boot disk and load WXP mini and access the floppy, even run a setup program.
So the floppy hardware is all functional.
I uninstalled the floppy driver and floppy controller driver and rebooted so that it reinstall both and still can't access it.
So what is the issue???????????? and how do I (and many others) fix it.
AND don't be a jerk and talk about using USB stick -
I have floppys with "stuff" that I need access to.
The floppy drive appears in Windows Explorer.
Inserting a floppy and clicking the drive in WE yields "Please insert a floppy disk...." error message.
I have 2 systems with W7 and floppy drives. Neither one is accessible via W7. I can boot the system with Hiren's boot disk and load WXP mini and access the floppy, even run a setup program.
So the floppy hardware is all functional.
I uninstalled the floppy driver and floppy controller driver and rebooted so that it reinstall both and still can't access it.
So what is the issue???????????? and how do I (and many others) fix it.
AND don't be a jerk and talk about using USB stick -