Help with Windows XP and floppy drive

[PJTX100]

Hope someone can help here 'caus this one has got me a bit stumped. I'm fairly literate with computers, just got a new machine which seems fine except for the A: drive. It read the first floppy I put in ther no probs, however when I put the 2nd in it still saw the first, even when there's no floppy in there it still sees the contents of the first disk! It seems to have cached the first floppy disk I used and it's hanging on to it for dear life!

Windows XP Home Edition by the way.

I've not seen this before. Tried refresh, and looked at every option and property around the A: drive to no avail.

Any ideas?

Hi mate,
Sorry I don't have a solution for you but can I suggest that you try the Hardware Analysis forum

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/cont...munity/forums/

These guys are pretty impressive. Maybe somebody here will be able to help you but if its computer trouble rather than AV equipment then you'll probably get an answer there. I have had two weird problems solved by the guys there with my home built computers. Give them a try.

Good luck

Shuggy

[Eddy Boy]

What happens if you close Explorer and re-open, or even re-start your computer?

[PJTX100]

Originally Posted by Eddy Boy

What happens if you close Explorer and re-open, or even re-start your computer?

It still sees the original diskette! Must admit I was well surprised it was still happening after a reboot.

[PJTX100]

Bit of googling found this....

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hard..._21128169.html

I'll try this when I get the chance!...

FOUND SOLUTION - HOPE HELPS SOMEONE ELSE
Some time ago I discovered that XP Home had an irritating habit in dealing with floppies. It would recognize the first floppy and display its contents but would display the same contents for subsequent floppies placed into the drive. Either that or later floppies would appear to be empty.
I have found that for each new floppy it is necessary to click on My Computer, right click on A:, left click on properties, select tools, select Error-Checking, select Automatically Fix File System Errors. After this procedure the floppy will correctly display its contents.

Floppies are normally formatted using FAT since they are then readable by computers not using NTFS.
GOOD OLD MICROSOFT - CAN'T EVEN LEAVE DOS ALONE

[Digger]

Did you try a CTRL-F5, when in Windows Explorer

[PJTX100]

Originally Posted by Digger

Did you try a CTRL-F5, when in Windows Explorer

Tried the refresh option - is there a difference?

Thanks.

[Digger]

When Web browsing it does a "forced" refresh. In my old work place an F5 refresh would pull the latest "cached" page (eg an hour or two old bbc news page) from the proxy server, but a CTRL-F5 actually grabbed the current page direct from the web page itself. So just wondering whether Ctrl-F5 would do similar with local resources on your PC, and access the currently inserted floppy.

[PJTX100]

Originally Posted by Digger

When Web browsing it does a "forced" refresh. In my old work place an F5 refresh would pull the latest "cached" page from the proxy server, but a CTRLF5 actually grabbed the current page direct from the web page itself. So just wondering whether Ctrl-F5 would do similar with local resources on your PC, and access the currently inserted floppy.

OK thanks, I'll give this a try first - then try the other one if I get no joy.

[PJTX100]

It turned out to be a dodgy connection to the floppy drive.