Joel;

The registry hack wouldn't effect the floppy in dos.
When you say it sounds like "like a car with a weak battery" I wonder if it
is getting correct voltage?
You might try a different floppy power pigtail on the powersupply
Make sure the boot drive order in bios is set to boot first from the floppy
.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel M. Blackman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] A drive not accessible


>If I try to access it the LED lights up and it tries to spin, but just goes
uh, uh, uh
> like a car with a weak battery.  Device manager says the floppy controller
> is working, both in Windows and in safe mode.

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