floppy drive not working in xp

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I can't get my floppy disk drive to work in windows xp. i stick a disk in (numerous disks in fact) and whatever i try to do with it, windows tells me there's no disk in drive a. i need to sort this as i need to make a boot disk to flash my bios.
 
it's black so it must be new! :rolleyes: its in my poota at work, so its a couple of years old. i'm trying to make a boot disk so i can flash my bios when i get home. i suppose i can just use a different computer to make the boot disk.
 
Ah, so it's in your PC at work, then there is every chance that you are not allowed to access disks. If it is a networked PC, then there are some nifty tools that IT depts use to stop you using it.

LOL... you've not seen our IT department!

i think its just a case of my floppy not working ....oh er missus!
i tried on someone elses and it worked.
 
You may try just making boot CD to boot to just to see it works, then make a bcd1 with your flash utility / BIOS file in.

yep. made the boot cd with bios on ready for when i get home. tested that it boots at work but obviously didn't run the flash utility as that would have really messed up my work computer!

i'm feeling more optimistic about getting my system up and running now... i was really fed up with it last night.
 
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