If you find extras, as stated below, sometimes they come right back
unless you delete them all.
I limit that "general" advise to floppy controller or floppy disk drives,
or things that _never_ have an "add-in" driver...
          Rick Glazier

> Try booting up in the SAFE mode. Then check the system settings
> to see if you have more than one floppy controller or floppy
> disk drive installed.
>
> Remove any "extras".
>
> Steven
>
> you wrote:
> >I get this error message when I try to copy or open a file from my floppy
> >drive.  SYSTEM CANNOT READ FROM SPECIFIED DEVICE

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