Many thanks to all who responded to my dilema about a Floppy Drive A in my
laptop.  With all the superb information you've all given me, I  have been
able to resolve the problem.  Since this unit didn't have a USB port either,
I've decided the best course of action is to replace it.

Bonnie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Poffenberger" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Floppy Drive A


| Hi Bonnie,
|
| There are a couple possible explanations. The most likely is that your
| desktop either has no floppy controller (these are pretty much dinosaurs
| these days), or it is disabled in the BIOS. Thus no driver is loaded and
it
| does not show up. It may also be possible to hide it in the removeable
media
| manager.
|
| The laptop, while not physically in the computer, may have the controller
| and a port to plug one in, or it may be an option for that laptop (it is
not
| uncommon in older laptops to be able to remove the CDROM drive and insert
a
| floppy drive module and vice-versa). There is not a good hardware method
to
| detect that a floppy actually drive exists, and Win 2K does not have
nearly
| the support for removeable media that XP does.
|
| So bottom line is that I would not worry about it. If you need to transfer
| files between computers, that you use USB based thumb drives.
|
| Russ Poffenberger
| [log in to unmask]
|
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
| > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bonnie Stanfield
| > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 8:30 PM
| > To: [log in to unmask]
| > Subject: [PCBUILD] Floppy Drive A
| >
| > Here is an oddity on a laptop:    My desktop XP has NO floppy
| > drive A:     It also does NOT LIST an A: drive on the My Computer.
| >
| > The LAPTOP(Toshiba Tecra 8100 Windows2000) on the other hand
| > HAS NO Floppy drive A:, BUT it does LIST one when I click on
| > My Computer.  WHY would it LIST one if there is no PLACE for one?
| >
| > Thanks again,
| >
| > Bonnie  Stanfield
| >
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