If I understand you right, as you look at the floppy disk from on the
top side the right side hole must be closed to write data to the disk
not open. After this also check to be sure the disk is formatted.

Chuck Harmon wrote:

>.... I have the drive installed and it shows up in Device Manager as working OK and no conflicts.  It also shows up in My Computer as the "A" drive.
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>When I place a blank disk in the drive, with write protect tab open,  and try to copy data to the disk, I get an error message saying "Access denied.  Make sure disk is not full or write protected and that the file is not currently in use".
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