Solve : Floppy Drive Issues?

1.	Solve : Floppy Drive Issues?
Answer» Ok I have never even heard of anything like this before.... There is a computer here at work that is relatively new (about 3 months old) with Windows XP SP3 fully updated. I just put in a new floppy drive last friday. We don't usually put them in our boxes but our robotic welders get backed up to floppy so it is a necessary evil. Anyway... you put in a disk and it will read it and you can get to the files. You pull that disk out and put in a different disk. You open the A: drive and the files from the first floppy show up and you can open them. Also, you can pull the disk out so there is no disk in the floppy drive, and open the A:. Again you will see the files from the first disk AND you can open them. I have no clue on this one! The only thing I can think of is that an external usb floppy drive was hooked up and used but it is not plugged in when this happens. Is offline files enabled to where it may be caching the DATA on your C: drive as A:? Shut off offline files feature and check againTried it and it didn't work. Any other thoughts?Select some other folder not connected to the floppy after installation of the new disk and then reselect the floppy again. Another way is to click out of explorer after installation of the new disk, reselect explorer and and reselect the floppy again. Try this procedure. RussFrom within Explorer: View>RefeshYep - a refresh could help - I think F5 will work as well to do that. Closing Explorer tho should certainly get rid of that - has to be caching tho. I have had an oddity on occasions with my DVD rom - sometimes it will show twice and still at least show contents even after eject. Doubt it'd let files out tho. My solution for having a floppy drive (hardly used tho) is a DataStation USB deal which also has 4 card reading slots - now and again very useful. Quote from: guardian on July 23, 2008, 09:11:27 AM We don't usually put them in our boxes but our robotic welders get backed up to floppy so it is a necessary evil. Anyway... you put in a disk and it will read it and you can get to the files. You pull that disk out and put in a different disk. You open the A: drive and the files from the first floppy show up and you can open them. Also, you can pull the disk out so there is no disk in the floppy drive, and open the A:. Again you will see the files from the first disk AND you can open them. Floppy drives are s-l-o-w. Therefore modern operating systems have a "floppy buffer cache", Windows is no exception, and this is emptied under certain circumstances e.g. when the disk is ejected. There is a special wire in the floppy cable that carries the disk change signal to the floppy controller hardware on the motherboard. PERHAPS the cable is old and/or damaged and/or not inserted properly at one or both ends? Problems like this that come after a drive swap sure make me think ALONG those lines. Then maybe I'd suspect the drive or motherboard. Both drive and computer should still be in WARRANTY. In view of that, why did you change the floppy drive? (Also, why did you need to?) Now with growing techniques floppy disk and drives are out of trend its place is taken over by pen drives there are basically two things that are in favor of pen drives. First is Long life and the next one is its STORAGE capacity. I know it is a bit expensive but in comparison of its utility the cost is not much. so leave floppy and take pen drive i am sure it will be of immense help to all computer community

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Ok I have never even heard of anything like this before....

There is a computer here at work that is relatively new (about 3 months old) with Windows XP SP3 fully updated. I just put in a new floppy drive last friday. We don't usually put them in our boxes but our robotic welders get backed up to floppy so it is a necessary evil. Anyway... you put in a disk and it will read it and you can get to the files. You pull that disk out and put in a different disk. You open the A: drive and the files from the first floppy show up and you can open them. Also, you can pull the disk out so there is no disk in the floppy drive, and open the A:. Again you will see the files from the first disk AND you can open them.

I have no clue on this one!

The only thing I can think of is that an external usb floppy drive was hooked up and used but it is not plugged in when this happens.
Is offline files enabled to where it may be caching the DATA on your C: drive as A:?

Shut off offline files feature and check againTried it and it didn't work. Any other thoughts?Select some other folder not connected to the floppy after installation of the new disk and then reselect the floppy again.

Another way is to click out of explorer after installation of the new disk, reselect explorer and and reselect the floppy again. Try this procedure.
RussFrom within Explorer: View>RefeshYep - a refresh could help - I think F5 will work as well to do that. Closing Explorer tho should certainly get rid of that - has to be caching tho.

I have had an oddity on occasions with my DVD rom - sometimes it will show twice and still at least show contents even after eject. Doubt it'd let files out tho.

My solution for having a floppy drive (hardly used tho) is a DataStation USB deal which also has 4 card reading slots - now and again very useful. Quote from: guardian on July 23, 2008, 09:11:27 AM

We don't usually put them in our boxes but our robotic welders get backed up to floppy so it is a necessary evil. Anyway... you put in a disk and it will read it and you can get to the files. You pull that disk out and put in a different disk. You open the A: drive and the files from the first floppy show up and you can open them. Also, you can pull the disk out so there is no disk in the floppy drive, and open the A:. Again you will see the files from the first disk AND you can open them.

Floppy drives are s-l-o-w. Therefore modern operating systems have a "floppy buffer cache", Windows is no exception, and this is emptied under certain circumstances e.g. when the disk is ejected. There is a special wire in the floppy cable that carries the disk change signal to the floppy controller hardware on the motherboard. PERHAPS the cable is old and/or damaged and/or not inserted properly at one or both ends?

Problems like this that come after a drive swap sure make me think ALONG those lines.

Then maybe I'd suspect the drive or motherboard. Both drive and computer should still be in WARRANTY. In view of that, why did you change the floppy drive? (Also, why did you need to?)

Now with growing techniques floppy disk and drives are out of trend its place is taken over by pen drives there are basically two things that are in favor of pen drives. First is Long life and the next one is its STORAGE capacity. I know it is a bit expensive but in comparison of its utility the cost is not much. so leave floppy and take pen drive i am sure it will be of immense help to all computer community

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