JesseKnows
Golden Member
I have a VP6, dual PIII 700 @ 933. 768 MB RAM (isn't it cheap these days:cool😉. Toshiba DVD-ROM on primary IDE master. 3 Maxtors on the IDEs. 2 more Maxtors on one HPT cable. Second HPT empty. One 3.5" 1.44MB floppy. ATI Rage Pro AGP (Expert@Work 8MB). HSP56 (PCTel) PCI modem. Acer USB scanner. LinkSys LNE100TX NIC. Aureal Vortex 8820 (A3DXStream) audio with beta drivers. Win2K with beta SP2, ACPI SMP kernel. Various and sundry software. No hardware conflicts reported.
My problem - the floppy drive isn't working properly in Win2K. When I try to show the A: drive in Windows Explorer, I get the message "The floppy disk controller reported an error that is not recognized by the floppy disk driver". When I type "dir a:" in a cmd window, I get the same message.
The floppy does seem to work outside of Win2K - it boots from the Win98 diskette! I tried switching floppy drives, but that didn't help. I do know it happened before I put the modem in.
Before I try to unplug everything, does anyone have any experience with such behavior?
TIA,
My problem - the floppy drive isn't working properly in Win2K. When I try to show the A: drive in Windows Explorer, I get the message "The floppy disk controller reported an error that is not recognized by the floppy disk driver". When I type "dir a:" in a cmd window, I get the same message.
The floppy does seem to work outside of Win2K - it boots from the Win98 diskette! I tried switching floppy drives, but that didn't help. I do know it happened before I put the modem in.
Before I try to unplug everything, does anyone have any experience with such behavior?
TIA,
