Hi Meck & Pat!   At 07:48 AM 3/15/2002 -0800 you wrote:

 >My floppy drive is suddenly not recognizing a media change since installed
 >XP
 >
 >I seldom use the floppy, but occasionally I have a need to zip some files
 >spanning diskettes.
 >
 >I wanted to do this yesterday and needed 2 floppies.  The first disk was
 >written fine, I swapped disks when asked and was startled to get the message
 >that there was no room on the disk which was a freshly formatted one.
 >
 >When I "opened" the disk, there were the files listed, the same files that
 >were on disk 1!
 >
 >I began to suspect a problem with Power Archiver, which has never failed me
 >before.
 >
 >After further investigation, I realized it was the floppy Drive.
 >
 >Before I open the case and replace the drive, has anyone had this type of
 >problem after installing XP?  Not a clean install, It was an upgrade.

Yes, some people complain with that, some say that it works fine.
After installing XP Pro I got another weird problem:

I  am not able to format any floppy disk! The LED works but after 0% I see
the message "device is busy". That happens even from Run menu.
Also I have problem with writing on floppy disks.
Periodically I have the same message "device is busy" but after
numerous attempts (removing and inserting the disk) I can finished it.
I never was able to reach 1% of formating....
The reading works normally.
I check all processes that could make FD busy and find nothing...
Something really wrong happens with floppy drives under XP
for some PCs.
If someone has an idea how to fix that, please let me know!

--
Stanislav Rabinovich

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