Am I missing something? When you load a floppy into a floppy drive - or
any removable media into its drive - the info is loaded into RAM when you
select (click on) that drive. Removing the media from that drive doesn't
change until you "refresh" or reaccess that drive, even if you put new
media into the drive. All you have to do is click (maybe double-click) on
the subject drive, or go to the View menu & select "Refresh."
Jack Payton
PS: Is Rizal related to Omar?

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 01:28:09 -0500 Robert Graf <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> 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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