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From: anniewarbucks on 10 Jan 2008 19:49

A friend of mine is running Windows XP Recently he has had a problem
with his floppy drive. he can put a floppy in and read the contents just
fine. But that is where the okay status ends. The next disk that he
places in will read as the previous disk. any subsequent disk will read
as the first. The only way that he can get it to read any other disks is
to restart the computer. What help can I getr to help him with his
problem?


From: Rod Speed on 10 Jan 2008 22:18
anniewarbucks <anniewarbucks.32zzyg(a)no.email.invalid> wrote:
> A friend of mine is running Windows XP Recently he has had a problem
> with his floppy drive. he can put a floppy in and read the contents
> just fine. But that is where the okay status ends. The next disk that
> he places in will read as the previous disk. any subsequent disk will
> read as the first. The only way that he can get it to read any other
> disks is to restart the computer. What help can I getr to help him
> with his problem?

The change signal isnt happening for some reason.

Thats usually a bad floppy drive, but can be a bad cable or a floppy controller problem.

Best to change the floppy drive and see if that fixes the problem.
Then change the ribbon cable if it doesnt.
If that doesnt fix the problem, give up on floppys.


From: Arno Wagner on 11 Jan 2008 22:27
Previously anniewarbucks <anniewarbucks.32zzyg(a)no.email.invalid> wrote:

> A friend of mine is running Windows XP Recently he has had a problem
> with his floppy drive. he can put a floppy in and read the contents just
> fine. But that is where the okay status ends. The next disk that he
> places in will read as the previous disk. any subsequent disk will read
> as the first. The only way that he can get it to read any other disks is
> to restart the computer. What help can I getr to help him with his
> problem?

If I remember correctly, disk change detection is done by an optical
sensor in some drives. If there is enough dust, disk changes
will not be detected and XP will deliver the data from cache.
Clean the drive with compressed air or (requires opening) a
camera lens brush.

Arno


From: Franc Zabkar on 15 Jan 2008 17:03
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:49:34 -0600, anniewarbucks
<anniewarbucks.32zzyg(a)no.email.invalid> put finger to keyboard and
composed:

>
>A friend of mine is running Windows XP Recently he has had a problem
>with his floppy drive. he can put a floppy in and read the contents just
>fine. But that is where the okay status ends. The next disk that he
>places in will read as the previous disk. any subsequent disk will read
>as the first. The only way that he can get it to read any other disks is
>to restart the computer. What help can I getr to help him with his
>problem?
>

I don't use XP but in Win9x's Explorer one possible workaround is to
select View -> Refresh.

- Franc Zabkar
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