It doesn't sound like it's the floppy drive to me. It sounds like it's a
windows problem. I get the same thing occasionally with my dvd drive on
occasion. I'll swap disks out and the old information stays on in explorer.
I think it didn't matter too much if I was trying to run setup, as long as
both disks had a setup file on them. The problem seems to have straightened
itself out, but it wasn't anything I did. I'm also using windows 2000, so
I'd suspect the os. Like I said, I have no solution, but perhaps this
information might mean something when Compaq comes out and looks at your
system. My system isn't a Compaq, it's a home built ABIT SE-6 (Intel 815)
with a Celeron 633, Matrox G-400 32m, sound blaster live platinum, usr 2976
pci hardware modem, 256 meg of ram (pc133 running at pc100). I hope this
info is of some help to you. I'm not sure if it's a SP1 or SP2 problem
either as I have been messing with all and I wasn't paying much attention.

Robert Graf

----- Original Message -----
From: "rizal sharif" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:15 PM
Subject: Floppy Drive Problem


> Hi,
>
> My company has bought new PC, Gateway E3400 (Win 2000)
> about one month ago.
> Now I faced a problem with the floppy drive. The drive
> will always refers to files from the first diskette I
> used even though there is no diskette inside it. It
> also cannot read from others diskette. I tried to
> clean the floppy drive but same problem appeared. The
> day before, I faced the same problem and rebooting the
> PC will solved it but now it won't work anymore.
>
> I tried to use the first diskette (problem diskette I
> think)  in another PC (Dell Optilex GX110), and you
> know what, it bring the same problem to the this PC.
> However I managed to resolve it using the repair bad
> sector utility for floppy disk.
>
> I've contacted Gateway, and they promised to came and
> replaced the floppy drive.
>
> I wonder whether the diskette is the source of the
> problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Rizal Sharif
>

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