floppy drive

I have an XP-machine used as a back-up to my Win-7 machine via a LAN. The XP machine had to have a motherboard replacement (a new but less-enhanced Gigabyte board). I have a Gigabyte CD (but not a floppy disk) which came w/ the new board. I boot w/ the XP Pro CD and I indicate that I have a...

Hi, apologies if this issue has been raised before, I have searched, honest! So, last night, I stupidly (:confused:) deleted the driver for ULI Electronics ethernet controller and cannot now access the internet. Luckily, and unfortunately for me, I have my work laptop and am able to get on the...

If I buy a external usb floppy drive will then the Windows XP sata drivers work?

Hi, I have a badly infected XP machine and its in dire need of a clear out so I figured I would either try and do a format and install Windows 7 or will have to stick with XP. My problem is that when I attempted the XP install it says it cant find my hard drive and I have tried the...

Hello, When windows 7 64bit runs for about 10 sec he access my floppy drive, also when i want to defrag my harddisk he first accesses the floppy drive. Any idea how to stop this ? virusscanner : microsoft security essentials no documents where linked to a:\

I am new to Windows7 and still learning. Had to get XP off my mind. I downloaded an embriodery file and wanted it saved to either floppy or external hardrive, the pull down window in windows7 did not give me a choice. To me that is stange. How, what or where do I select to save my...

W7, 32 bit. When I attempt to format a floppy, I get "Windows Explorer has stopped working" screen and reverts to the desktop. What is the connection between formatting and IE. This happens even though IE 8 is not running. Jim

Forgive for the double post--- my aggrivation must be shared. ive been googling my ass off for 4 hours with no helpful information. I have removed all periphs and unneeded hardware -- ram -- disabled floppy -- everything but video card. Drives have been formatted and partitioned a few times...

I have purchased and installed Win7 on a New (2 months old) PC that has a New floppy drive. The first time I used the drive I inserted a disk and opened it up to see what was on it. Explorer showed files and allowed me to open one for viewing. I then deleted all files from the disk and...

After imaging my C drive running Windows XP, I did a clean install of Windows 7 to replace it. I have a Pioneer DVD writer and an HP CD writer, both connected to the motherboard (Asus P5B) through a JMicron JMB36X controller. When I boot Windows 7, only the hard drives (C and D) and the...

Virtual Floppy Drive does not appear to be working correctly in Windows 7. The drive does not show in windows explorer and I cannot access it. I have tried running it as an administrator and in Vista and XP Compatibility Modes to no success. Thanks for your help

im running a Asus PK5-E WiFi Mobo, i have a sata raid 0 set up during the installation i specified drivers from a floppy for the raid controller. once everything was done, i check the drivers and im running Microsoft drivers residing in the system32 folder. raid performance is about half the...

I have a Dell Dimension 8400 currently running Windows XP, and I cannot seem to get past this problem. I have overcome several obstacles just to get to this point, but now I seem to have hit a dead stop, and I am not making any progress at all. "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is...

Installing Windows 7: I found threads on this problem under other OSes Like Vista (shocker). The error message is "A required Cd/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver flopply disk, CD, DVD, or usb flash drive, please insert now. Now this is after I booted from a...

Computer Specs: Alienware Area-51m 7700 / Clevo D900T Processor Intel Pentium 4 3.8GHz (2MB L2 Cache) Memory 3.0GB Ram Hard Drive IDE:(1) 60GB Drive IDE: (0)N/A Optical Drive Slot Load DVD-RW Floppy Drive (1):Dell Floppy Drive Module Display 17.4" WXGA (1366 x 768) Network Interface 10/100/1000...

Background: Windows 7 RC patched, new Dell Vostro 220 2GB RAM, 75GB HDD C:, 250GB HDD I:, 80 GB external HDD, optical (CD/DVD-RW) drives, floppy drive, lovely new Kodak ESP5 All-in-One inkjet printer, etc. Because the C: drive has everything on it, it is quite crowded. (It contains W7, W2K Pro...

I am using a old motherboard which doesnt have a native SATA driver on the chipset (I think). When I installed WinXP on this computer I had to either use the press F2 (or was it F7) or something when installation, and have the driver on a floppy driver. Thats why I have a old 20 GB PATA disk...

This takes forever to even get ot this initial install screen where it gives me an error out of nowhere and says A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, etc etc I dont have a raid set up, raid is set to off on my mobo. It is an nforce 4 sli...

My USB Floppy Drive was working fine in Windows Vista Business. After installing Windows 7 Beta, and plugging in the my USB Floppy Drive, Windows fails to install the driver for it. It shows up in Device Manager, but the driver will simply not install... :D thanks

My 3.5 Floppy, that worked on a couple of Linux versions and on Windows XP, will not work in Windows 7. Windows Explorer recognizes the drive, but doesn't recognize a disc when a known good disc is inserted. Does anyone know if 3.5 Floppy support been eliminated from Windows 7? :confused...