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Floppy drive doesn’t work in Windows, but does outside of Windows

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Mar 15, 20266616 views
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Problem My (internal) floppy drive does not work in Windows (neither XP nor 7). That is, when trying to access the drive, nothing occurs, no light, no motor, nothing. It does however work in DOS, in the BIOS boot-menu, in Windows setup (ie F6 to load drivers), etc. Symptoms From command-line: From …

Error Output

C:\>dir a:\
The device is not ready.

C:\>

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Fix for: Floppy drive doesn’t work in Windows, but does outside of Windows

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Well, I’ve solved it (more or less). I had to mess around in the back of my system today, so I took the opportunity to remove the 128MB flash drive that I use to boot. Lo and behold, Windows is able to use the floppy drive (and with the changes I ma…

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