When booting upduring POST, I get a "floppy drive fail (40)" error code. I have to use F1 to get to the desk top. I do not have a floppy drive! I have replaced the cmos battery on the mother board. When I access floppy drive in the removable device priority menu, click,nothing! I get no sub-menu to disable it.
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Each time I try to read a floppy disk and then try to read the same disk on my WinXP PC I'm told the disk is not formatted/corrupted file system. The disk(s) are good and work as advertised in the XP machine but not with Win7. Kicker - my USB floppy drive works very well with Win7 and no issues.
any good backup software that can boot of a floppy?
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Go into your BIOS and set it to disable the floppy controller. The BIOS will tell Windows (any version of Windows) that a floppy drive is present, even if none is hooked up, if the floppy controller is enabled.
Need a floppy to usb connector.
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