I'm not sure I understand... when you put a disk in the drive you can read files? Then what exactly is the system not recognizing?



-Babyraven

I am trying to load a real estate program on my Dell portable. The portable is the "remote" computer and my desktop the "master". I must make a registration disk on the laptop to register it with the "master" computer. I try to open the real estate program on the Dell computer and an error message appears as follows...

Error: Can not find floppy disk drive. Registering workstation requires a floppy disk drive. Please install one and try again.


If I hit the o.k. button, I get the same message. I hit the o.k. button again and I can proceed to the registration screen, but it won't recognize the disk. The next message appears as follows...
Please insert a formatted disk into drive B. Click OK when ready. I click OK and the next message appears...
Error openinf file in drive B: Please insert a pre-formatted, no write protection disk into the drive and try again. That's as far as I get. Yes I did check the disk to make sure it's not write-protected. Help!!!
As I said before. I've been able to read files from a floppy in the Dell.

I don't understand what the problem is.

The floppy drive is a Superdisk. I don't know if that has anything to do with the problem. I have made sure that the disk that I installed was formatted.

I am trying to load a real estate program into my Dell. I've designated it as the "remote" computer and my desktop as the "master". Before I can synchonize the two computers I have to make a registration disk in the portable. When I click on the icon for the real estate program I get the message as follows...

Error: Can not find floppy disk drive.
Registering workstation requires a floppy disk drive. Please install one and try again.

If I click on the OK button once I get the same message. If I click on OK a second time I can override that error message.

My program then asks me to insert a disk into the A: or B: drive to create the registration disk. I am not able to select a drive (it's blank and will not let me enter one). If I go ahead and click OK anyway I get the following message...

Please insert a formatted disk into drive B. Click OK when ready. I've made sure the disk was installed and the drive is fully seated. I have also tryed several disks to make sure there were not corrupt. I've made sure they are formatted and also checked to make sure they were not "write-protected".

I clicked on the OK button once again and the following message appears this time...

Error opening file in drive B:
Please insert a preformatted, no write protection disk into the drive and try again.

Note: The floppy drive is a Superdisk 120. I don't have any idea if that makes a difference or not. I've tryed using a standard 1.44 MB floppy as well as the Superdisk.

I'm frustrated and hope you can help.

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My computer is not recognizing my floppy drive. I checked the solutiions guide and it said to run a virus scan. I did this and no viruses were found, but the computer still did not recognize the drive. What should I do?