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   From: joe@user.com   
      
   "Financial Success"  wrote in message   
   news:iaydndUdpIez0SDZnZ2dnUVZ_tudnZ2d@hawaiiantel.net...   
   > Help..   
   >   
   > I upgraded from Win 98 to Win xp HE and now my floppies don't access..   
   >   
   > Error- Insert disk in Drive A.. ( Hello.. disk is in drive)   
   >   
   > What can I do to access my floppies.. I know Old school but there sinfo   
   > there I need..   
   >   
   > Any help appreciated   
   > Kawika   
   >   
   >   
      
   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.   
      
   Mike   
      
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