Vista shows my floppy drive as drive A and the device manager says that the drive and the drive controller are working properly. However, when I attempt to read, write, format a disk vista reports the the drive has no disk in it. I changed the drive.
View 8 RepliesCan you use a thumb drive as a bootable floppy? For such things as updating the BIOS? I don't have a physical floppy drive and it appears that without it you can't update the bios. Never had a thumb drive before and their really cheap now. Just wanted to know how do you go about making it bootable and such if this is doable!
View 5 Replies View Relatedi wish everything was as easy as they say. Insert your windows vista CD and go from there. My problem is that my PC will neither boot from CD or Floppy Drive. i can to rebuild the bootmgr?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI built myself a computer a couple of years ago and have Vista Ultimate on it. Recently I went to create a floppy disk for maintenance on another computer and found that the floppy drive (which I haven't used before) is labeled as the B drive. How do I change that back to A? Right now I am using subst a: "b:" which works for now but would rather set it permanently.
View 9 Replies View Relatedmachine came with vista home premium now have service pack 2 updated, when i try to use a floppy drive for back up or restore i get blue screen, if i go to safe mode the floppy is ok, i also have an external floppy same thing will not work under vista but will work in safe mode, i have also replaced the internal floppy same thing, so i am saying it looks like vista sounds like vista, are there any patches for this problem.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI need to purchase a USB 3.5 inch external floppy disk drive to transfer files from from my old computer, which is running Windows 98, to my new computer running Vista Home Premium. The external floppy disk drives I've looked at on NewEgg.com all support versions of Windows up to Vista but not including Vista. I do not want to deal with driver problems so I'm doing this research up front
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a dual boot system with XP and Vista and I can't boot from a floppy anymore. This happened after I installed Vista. Does this have something to do with BCDEdit? Anyway I can fix this? I already have "boot from a floppy" enabled in BIOS.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a system running 32-bit Home Premium and noticed that when I open "My Computer" it shows two floppy drives - A: and B: - even though my system only has one floppy drive (and there's only one showing in BIOS setup). I tried uninstalling drive B:, but the next time I booted, it was reinstalled. I then tried uninstalling both floppies -- when I rebooted, the system promptly reinstalled A: and B:. Any suggestions on how to correct this? It's not a critical problem, since I have only used my floppy to boot hard drive diagnostics, but it is becoming a major irritant.
View 5 Replies View RelatedInstalling vista x64 took 3 days (unbelievable really!) - and clearly had problems reading / extracting the files from the DVD drive. Vista works completely fine now (normal speed, no bugs-of-significance, with one major exception: The optical drive does not work correctly) The drive is recognised correctly in device manager, there are no reported errors and the drive appears correctly in explorer.
Insert a disc, and the drive sounds like it is struggling to spin up correctly. Explorer takes about 2 minutes to read the volume in. Succeeds, gives the volume name and launches autoplay with the appropriate options (video for a DVD, slideshow for a cd of photos etc. . . ) Try to open to browse the disc, or run a file and the application hangs (e.g. try to browse with explorer, and explorer hangs; try to play a DVD and media player / centre hangs etc.). Killing the programme with task-manager usually works - eventually. The drive has the most recent firmware.
The real kicker is that I've tried two drives in the same machine, with the same error. I've tried the same drives in another (XP Pro) machine, and they work fine. I've even tried installing XP-Pro on the problem machine, and under XP-Pro, the drives work fine. The only thing I can think of is that is there is some kind of compatability issue between the motherboard and Vista x64 - which would affect the optical drive. That said, I have 2x Samsung Spinpoint SATA II drives installed on two other ports, and they work like lightning.
yes i have an older p4 computer i just upgraded to run win vista and i have an asus p4b with a 1.6ghz northwood p4 cpu and i have 2 floppy drives installed but when i boot up only one floppy drive powers up both i have them both hooked up to the same ribbon cable i have a floppy ribbon cable set up for 2 floppy drives does floppy drives have jumpers like hard drives and dvd drives do? what do i need to do to get them both the power up when i boot up and one be floppy a and one be floppy b
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View 5 Replies View RelatedMy 12 year old recently installed a Bamboo Art Tablet onto our computer, which also included Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0, Corel painter Essentials 4.0 and Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0. Since then, my DVD/CD drive doesn't work and my thousands of color photos have changed to black & white and have lines running through them and are stretched out. Their thumbnails are in color and look fine, but when I open each picture, they're B&W w/lines and stretched out. I am completely computer illiterate. I don't know what regedit, upper/lower filters, registries, or drives are or mean, never mind how to fix/uninstall/reinstall them and I'm afraid I will completely break my computer. I've never been on a site like this; are we allowed to exchange e-mail addresses or telephone #'s? If someone is willing to talk me through this, I think I might be able to fix my computer.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am very frustrated with Vista, and considered rolling back to XP, but I really don't want to format my hd! I have a Gateway GT5656, with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core with 3GHZ, and 3 gb of ram. Anyway, I have a Sony and Optiarc DVD drives. The problem is they are very inconsistent! Seems after I put my PC to sleep, they don't work after that, until I reboot again, then they work great. Any ideas why this is happening?? I use my drives a lot, and it's very annoying to have to reboot the computer to get the drives to work! I have SP1 for Vista Home Premium, and have updated the drivers for the DVD drives.
View 8 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know the fix for this? I have a 250MB flash drive from the same manufacturer that works without a problem on a Vista workstation. I also have a new 1.0GB USB2.0 flash drive from the same manufacturer that works on my XP Pro workstation but does not work on my Vista workstation.
I have tried to reinstall the driver and found no driver for a USB drive. There have been many posts on the net about this problem with a few suggestions for fixes, but none have worked. Apparently Vista is blocking this USB drive. We have several USB drives of the same type and they are all blocked. Go to an XP Pro machine, and they work perfectly. This must be a new security app that Microsoft has added without any documentation to support it. It doesn't even show up as an error in event viewer.
ive been busy for a while and havent used my computer for a while and now i started to use it again but when i try to put a cd in nothin happens u can only hear it spinnin and nothin and also when i click on dvd drive in my computer it says applicatin not found help plz im runnin windows vista home premium hp pavilion dv6700.
View 4 Replies View RelatedThe CD/DVD drive used to work, but now doesn't. I don't know of anything changed since them. No drive is recognized and I can't open the drive once Vista takes over. I can open it while it's booting. I searched the forums and found something about deleting the upper and lower filters in the registry and followed that. My registry had three "Control Sets", ControlSet001, ControlSet003, and CurrentControlSet. I was able to delete the upper filters in sets 1 and 3, but there was no upper filter in CurrentControlSet. None had lower filters.
That slightly changed the problem. Previously the CD activity LED stayed off, but now it's always on. However, the drive still doesn't open, and nothing is recognized. I went to the device manager and I didn't see any optical drive. And one other interesting thing - When the laptop wakes up from screensaver, the CD/DVD drive starts spinning and won't stop. Still can't open the drive, and it's still not recognized.
First disclaimer... I'me really a network novice. I've used XXCOPY and Robocopy to successfully back up entire volumes to an eSATA connected drive, but when I try to do the same to a newly acquired NAS drive, it doesn't work right. Instead of copying "only" the files that are new (or changed since the last backup), Robocopy copies every file over again. And XXCOPY (free version) won't copy at all to the NAS drive. I downloaded the 60day trial of XXCOPY home, and it does work right, (except it recopies lots of zipped files) but XXCOPY home costs $40. Here's a typical command (from a batch file) for each: Robocopy E: \DLINKVolume_1E-BACKUP /MIR /R:1 /W:1 and xxcopy e: \dlinkvolume_1e-backup /clone/ff I also found RichCopy, which I tried, and find it also copies files that are already in place on the NAS drive. Could it be that I have a problem with the way I've set up the NAS? I'm probably overlooking something basic,
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy external DVD burning drive was working fine the other day as a matter of fact I had burned 3 DVD's but when I tried to burn the 4th one my computer still detected the burning drive but my burning program (ImgBurn) didn't detect the DVD media. Does this sound like maybe the laser went bad in the drive.
View 4 Replies View RelatedBrand new Freeagent USB 1TB drive for Windows Home Premium on an ACER desktop. After installing the Seagate Manager software, it tells me that I need a 32-bit OS and will not install. The result is that there is a letter assigned to the drive but no hard drive icon. And the drive just stops working after a while. Unplugging it and plugging it back in makes it work again. Then my files vanish and it dies again. And so forth.
In post after post on this forum and others I've seen about this issue, everyone seems to offer a lot of assurances that external drives will work automatically on 64-bit. But they don't. From the Seagate website in the downloads section:
FreeAgent Family Software
File Version: FreeAgentCN.EXE
File Size for Windows.EXE: 63 MB
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, Vista
Business, Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Home, XP Professional, XP Media Center Edition 32-bit Operating Systems ONLY. So should I get a new drive designed for this OS, and if so, which ones are they?
The operating system is Window Vista Home Basic SP-1 and it has a 32-bit operating system. I connected the hard drive from my old Dell with Windows 98 to my new computer. I used an Airlink101 3.5??? USB 2.0 SATA/IDE HDD Enclosure, Model AEN-U35SE to make the connection. I am able to access the files on the old hard drive, but the programs don???t work. The whole point was to be able to use MS Word in the old format, rather than the new format, which looks completely different. Other programs don???t work, either. What can I do to make them work?
View 8 Replies View RelatedThis seems to be common—the optical drive doesn't work. I'd like to detail more symptoms, though, that might help form a real fix for those whom the solution at The CD drive or the DVD drive does not work as expected on a computer that you upgraded to Windows Vista wouldn't work, as it didn't for me (Upperfilter and Lowerfilter values don't exist in my registry).
Upon a clean installation of Vista, the optical drive works fine. After installing the whole slew of current updates, it stops working. I didn't figure this was a thread for the Windows Updates forum, though. When putting in a disc, the drive goes to work (illuminated busy light and the sound of the drive spinning) for a bit, then turns off and on continuously, freezing the computer until the disc is ejected. A disc left in the drive upon start-up will work correctly. Once I open the drive, however, that's when it no longer works, whether I load the same or different disc. So my question is, is there a way to fix this? Other solutions, like uninstalling the drive in the device manager and rebooting, haven't worked for me.
I have a usb drive formatted NTFS attached to pc using Vista HP. Can usb drive this be reformatted and still work afterward? I know the files will be lost. I know there used to be a problem about reformatting NTFS drives.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to flash bios in my DFI board. DFI site says for vista 64 users to create usb bootable disk and flash from there. I have flashed from floppy many times without any problems. They recommend using "HP usb formatting tool". Searching this I came across a thread in this forum I downloaded the tool and win98 boot and folowed the instructions on this page. My usb flash stick was successfully formatted, but the boot files were not installed. The stick shows empty. I have tried several times with the same results. Reason for flashing: I am having memory issues with my, and DFI tech recommended flashing to 1-29-09 version which addresses memory related issues. Off topic comment: Werent we making progress at flashing bios through Windows in XP?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am about to purchase a Dell M1330, which doesnt offer a TPM module. I also don't want to deal with plugging in a USB Flash drive every time I boot up (which could get stolen with a laptop). I have the following questions regarding Bitlocker
1 Can I still use the Bitlocker feature of Windows Vista with a TPM module or USB flash drive? 2 Are there any articles that document how secure Bitlocker is in keeping your data safe if your laptop is stolen? 3 If for some reason that operating system gets corrupt, is there a way to extract my data off of the hard drive if I have the encryption keys?
my dvd drive has also gone missing on my vista home 32, im sure its the same type of problem that most people are suffering, worked fine, installed itunes hooked up ipod, download daemon tools etc, then it stopped being recognized, not sure when exactly it all went wrong, but the drive still opens spins does all that but just wont show up in disk mangement, device manager or my computer. I used the MS ART - 320553 registry fix and deleted the filters, but to no avail, anyone have any other solutions?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI know Vista Ultimate can only be installed on one PC. However, will it work if I take out the hard drive and put it into another PC?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a Simpletech 250GB external hard drive that wont show up on my laptop. It works on my Dell. I am getting this error message when looking at Device Manager. Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared for "safe removal", but it has not been removed from the computer. (Code 47) Anyone else have this problem?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI was cleaning my computer and accidently uninstalled my realtek audio drive. I immediately re downloaded and installed it but now my sound doesnt work. My sound icon isnt X'd out or anything, I'm just not getting sound. I'm sorry if I'm not providing enough information, ummm... lets see if I can give more info... I think it might have something to do with the fact that I'm using an HD TV screen and my sound comes through that... but I dontknow how to fix it.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThis is a tough one for me to explain but I will try very hard. I guess this started around late summer 09. I turned on my computer and it would run chkdsk over and over again. I let it go over night once and it was still scanning the hard drive over and over. Around Christmas time I reinstalled vista and still it would run chkdsk on every boot. Only this time, it ran once and then vista loaded fine. It would stop responding often and run slow but it was better. I manually turned off chkdsk but it made the computer run worse over time.
It would just not do anything so i would have to hold on the power button and turn it back on. The hard drive light will just stay on and the drive will sound a little different than usual. No clicking or metal on metal noise, just a different type of busy noise until you open something. Also you could use the disk clean up but not the defrag. It will say you should defrag volume so i would click defrag now. It would just show you the spinning blue circle and say analyzing but then say you should degrag volume again. So it won't defrag either. System restore also does not work.........
I am Using Vista Ultimate 64. I would like to tranfer my entire drive incuding all files and the Operating system From my current IDE HDD to a new SATA Drive of the sames size (500 Gig) I need the IDE Drive for an older computer ( The 40 Gig IBM Deathstar still functions great, but all programs seem more bloated these Days)
Anyway I went to Administrative Tools and Formated the New Drive NFTS with no Drive Letter. But I cannot get it recognized as a transfer device when I go to system backup. Can I use 'C' on the second and soon to be only drive? If I have to use E or F for now can I change it back later. would that affect the file system? I intend to Low level Format the IDE and try cloning the old machine's XP Drive (32 bit) to it in the second place.
I'm running Vista on a PC that has a hd that has been formated into 3 discrete drives.Vista is loaded onto the C drive, programmes are loaded onto the d drive while i have my data stored on my E drive. By default any documents I save are directed towards My Documents on the C drive - how I go about changing that so the default is my Documents on the E drive?
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