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re: A:\ is not accessible
Sunday, June 19, 2005 at 6:11 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Sleepy
(5 messages posted)
Can you hear the drive being accessed? If it's silent and the green light doesn't
come on, you may have to replace it if possible. You can try to flash the BIOS with
an updated Flash Bios file from the manufacter. It could just be dirty and something
is sticking inside not allowing the head to read the drive. Try purchasing a cleaning
disk. There are air cans you can purchase as I don't recommend blowing into the
drive because of the moisture in exhaled air.
On Sunday, June 19, 2005 at 4:45 pm, Gene Johnson wrote:
>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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