XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-xp, alt.os.windows-xp, alt.windows-xp   
   XPost: microsoft.public.windowsxp   
   From: sinner@gatesofhell.org   
      
   "Mike Y"  wrote in message news:S0qvg.4$2u2.2@fe02.lga...   
   >   
   > I get that on my new Compaq, and it came with XP.  I have to just retry   
   > then it works.   
   >   
   > Only problem is once you touch a floppy on the machine, it seems that   
   > every time you do anything it has to search the damn floppy.  You hear   
   > the error/retry seek of the floppy drive, then it goes on.  ANNOYING   
   > AS HELL!!!!  It does that until you reboot the machine.   
   >   
   > It got to the point that I NEVER use the floppy in my machine.  I have   
   > a networked machine on the next desk, and if I need to access a floppy   
   > I put it in over there then mount the floppy to my machine to read it.   
   >   
   > It's like Microsoft didn't care about floppy access, and didn't care how   
   > buggy or annoying it was.  It worked so that's as far as development   
   > went and then they sluffed off the rest.   
   >   
      
   And yet hundreds of thousands of XP users, including myself, have absolutely   
   no problems with their diskette drives.   
      
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