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A:\ is not accessible
Sunday, June 19, 2005 at 4:45 pm
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Posted by Gene J (1240 messages posted)

I acquired a used Toshiba Satellite 1675CDS laptop for work, to be used for audio/visual presentations. It arrived with a fresh Win98SE install on it. It has 192M RAM and a 20G HD. The problem is that the floppy disk will not function. Everytime I insert a disk and try to open it, after a few minutes pause, up pops a small screen that says "A:\ is not accessible. The device is not ready."

I have gleaned the following:
The floppy is (now) enabled in BIOS
It uses IRQ 6 and there are no conflicts.
In Device Manager under Standard Floppy Disk Controller Properties it says: "This device is working properly."
The driver is "functioning properly." (Reinstalled as a precaution)
The registry key is: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\enum\ACPI\*PNP0700\0

Does anyone have a suggestion or do I need to replace this drive?

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Responses to this message:
re: A:\ is not accessible (Sleepy: Sunday, June 19, 2005 at 6:11 pm)

re: A:\ is not accessible (gewg_: Sunday, June 19, 2005 at 6:57 pm)

re: A:\ is not accessible (Gene J: Sunday, June 19, 2005 at 9:52 pm)

re: A:\ is not accessible (Gene J: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 1:18 am)

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A:\ is not accessible (Gene J: Sun, Jun 19, 2005, 4:45 pm)

re: A:\ is not accessible (Sleepy: Sun, Jun 19, 2005, 6:11 pm)

re: A:\ is not accessible (gewg_: Sun, Jun 19, 2005, 6:57 pm)

re: A:\ is not accessible (Gene J: Sun, Jun 19, 2005, 9:52 pm)

re: A:\ is not accessible (Gene J: Wed, Jun 22, 2005, 1:18 am)

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