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Lmo1952

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March 24th, 2007 03:00

Vista & Floppy Drive

Anyone having problems with an internal floppy drive not working with Vista?
  • pcgeek11

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    Posted March 24th, 2007 05:00

    Does anyone still use an internal floppy drive? I thought they were history. Get a USB Floppy, better and faster.
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    Posted March 24th, 2007 13:00

    I use an internal floppy because it is out of the way. Not sitting around on my desk.
     
    Used Win98 until late Jan. this year. Have a lot of 3.5 floppies with useful info.
     
    yes, the floppy works with Vista.
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    Posted March 24th, 2007 16:00

    For what's it worth I had one put in my 5 month old system. For the 20 or 30 bucks it's worth it to me. You never know when it will come in handy and it's out of the way.
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    Posted March 24th, 2007 21:00

    I have an internal floppy drive in a brand new xps410 with Vista, and nobody seems to know why it doesn't work even after it has been replaced.
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    Posted March 25th, 2007 02:00

    We've done all of that and everytning appears to be in working order which is why the techs seem to think it has to do with vista.
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    Posted March 25th, 2007 02:00

    " I have an internal floppy drive in a brand new xps410 with Vista, and nobody seems to know why it doesn't work even after it has been replaced. "
     
     
    Check to see if it is enabled and visible in the BIOS.
     
    pcgeek11
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    Posted March 25th, 2007 16:00

    Does it work in safe mode? If so, come back with what type of video card you have, this one's interesting.
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    Posted March 25th, 2007 21:00

    It does work in safe mode.  NVIDIA GeForce 7300LE
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    Posted March 25th, 2007 23:00

    What error message do you get when you try to access the floppy drive?
     
    Although it's a longshot, try completely uninstalling the video driver and reinstalling the latest one from support.dell.com.
     
    If that doesn't work I have some reghacks we can look at next.
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    Posted March 26th, 2007 06:00

    Error message is:  A is not accessible.  The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.