Vista - floppy drive

-- Just got a Dell Dimension E520 running Vista. My floppy drive will not
work. The
system sees it in the bios, sees it during boot, and will let me access it in
safe mode. Device manager says everything is fine, but when I try to access
it from Vista I get the following error:

A:\ is not accessible.
The rquest could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

I just spent 3 hours with Dell tech support, and they have not been able to
find the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Robert Howard

A last try, delte it from device manager (Uninstall) reboot and let Windows
install it again.
Did sometimes a very good job.
Ko.


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>
> -- Just got a Dell Dimension E520 running Vista. My floppy drive will not
> work. The
> system sees it in the bios, sees it during boot, and will let me access it
> in
> safe mode. Device manager says everything is fine, but when I try to
> access
> it from Vista I get the following error:
>
> A:\ is not accessible.
> The rquest could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
>
> I just spent 3 hours with Dell tech support, and they have not been able
> to
> find the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Robert Howard

Thanks Koze, I found the ansers but not from uninstalling. I went to A:
properties, went to sharing, click on advance sharing, enabled caching, and
enabled all files and programs. And it started working. Thanks again.
--
Robert Howard


"koze" wrote:

> A last try, delte it from device manager (Uninstall) reboot and let Windows
> install it again.
> Did sometimes a very good job.
> Ko.
>
>
> "ice256" <ice256@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
> news:038FE54C-1292-44B7-9D03-510988B4609E@microsoft.com...
> >
> > -- Just got a Dell Dimension E520 running Vista. My floppy drive will not
> > work. The
> > system sees it in the bios, sees it during boot, and will let me access it
> > in
> > safe mode. Device manager says everything is fine, but when I try to
> > access
> > it from Vista I get the following error:
> >
> > A:\ is not accessible.
> > The rquest could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
> >
> > I just spent 3 hours with Dell tech support, and they have not been able
> > to
> > find the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > Robert Howard
>
>
>

It a way around the problem, but if this works it's OK .

Glad you got it solved.
Ko

"ice256" <ice256@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
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> Thanks Koze, I found the ansers but not from uninstalling. I went to A:
> properties, went to sharing, click on advance sharing, enabled caching,
> and
> enabled all files and programs. And it started working. Thanks again.
> --
> Robert Howard
>
>
> "koze" wrote:
>
>> A last try, delte it from device manager (Uninstall) reboot and let
>> Windows
>> install it again.
>> Did sometimes a very good job.
>> Ko.
>>
>>
>> "ice256" <ice256@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
>> news:038FE54C-1292-44B7-9D03-510988B4609E@microsoft.com...
>> >
>> > -- Just got a Dell Dimension E520 running Vista. My floppy drive will
>> > not
>> > work. The
>> > system sees it in the bios, sees it during boot, and will let me access
>> > it
>> > in
>> > safe mode. Device manager says everything is fine, but when I try to
>> > access
>> > it from Vista I get the following error:
>> >
>> > A:\ is not accessible.
>> > The rquest could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
>> >
>> > I just spent 3 hours with Dell tech support, and they have not been
>> > able
>> > to
>> > find the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>> >
>> > Robert Howard
>>
>>
>>