Vista - floppy drive installation problems

I installed a floppy drive on my computer running Vista. My bios is showing
the drive but when I boot up into Vista, it's not showing the drive. I've
installed it, removed it and did all of the tinkering I can think of
including looking for drivers but it won't show the drive. Any suggestions?

Hi,

Does Device Manager show the drive or the floppy drive controller?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Jeff" <Jeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8F095F03-D4B8-46CC-B8D9-D479B61BC440@microsoft.com...
>I installed a floppy drive on my computer running Vista. My bios is
>showing
> the drive but when I boot up into Vista, it's not showing the drive. I've
> installed it, removed it and did all of the tinkering I can think of
> including looking for drivers but it won't show the drive. Any
> suggestions?

No... Device manager doesn't show the drive. I know it works because I
pulled it from my old system.

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does Device Manager show the drive or the floppy drive controller?
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Jeff" <Jeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8F095F03-D4B8-46CC-B8D9-D479B61BC440@microsoft.com...
> >I installed a floppy drive on my computer running Vista. My bios is
> >showing
> > the drive but when I boot up into Vista, it's not showing the drive. I've
> > installed it, removed it and did all of the tinkering I can think of
> > including looking for drivers but it won't show the drive. Any
> > suggestions?
>
>

Hi Jeff,

Does Add Hardware in the Control Panel detect it?

If not, then there is a problem with the drive being reported by the system
BIOS, and you may need to recheck settings there.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Jeff" <Jeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5A9F9B16-793F-4821-96EF-5664801F75F5@microsoft.com...
> No... Device manager doesn't show the drive. I know it works because I
> pulled it from my old system.
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does Device Manager show the drive or the floppy drive controller?
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> "Jeff" <Jeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:8F095F03-D4B8-46CC-B8D9-D479B61BC440@microsoft.com...
>> >I installed a floppy drive on my computer running Vista. My bios is
>> >showing
>> > the drive but when I boot up into Vista, it's not showing the drive.
>> > I've
>> > installed it, removed it and did all of the tinkering I can think of
>> > including looking for drivers but it won't show the drive. Any
>> > suggestions?
>>
>>