David,

Elizabeth hit on the issue, but if the cable is good, it could also be the
mechanical switch in the floppy that detects removal and insertion of a
floppy.  I've seen this happen most often on floppy drives that are in the
case vertically.  Sometimes it is only a dust clot in the switch.

Fred Nielson

-----Original Message-----
From: David Jonathan Justman
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 7:10 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PCBUILD] Win2000 Problem reading floppies.

The first time each session that I use Windows Explorer to read a floppy
everything goes fine.  However, when I insert a new floppy and try to read
it, it gives me the data from my old one.  F5 doesn't work either.  Only
rebooting helps.  How can I solve the problem?

Thank you.
David Jonathan Justman.

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