I'm joining this string late, but this might be pertinent. If you only remove and replace the disk,
"refresh" does just that - refreshes the info in ram. But if you happen to have a (certain?) file
from the disk that is open, and then you remove the disk, Windows seems to lose touch. I
absent-mindedly removed a (cd-rom) disk last week (with a file still open) and Windows could /
would not read the next cd I put in the tray - it kept asking for the cd that was supposed to be in
there, but even that didn't help. I tried reboot, after which, none of my desktop or quick-launch
icons worked (My Computer, Recycle Bin, IE, OE etc.) - I couldn't even get into Windows Explorer.
My solution was to boot from my startup disk, run scanreg /restore, and restore the previous day's
registry, after which all was fine again. I don't know what file I had open at the time, and that
might matter - I don't know (it was not a setup file). I'm running WinME if that matters. hth
Alan Thompson
Jack R Payton wrote:
> 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?
>
Robert Graf wrote:
> > 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"
> > 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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