Vista Won't Show my floppy Drive..

I'm having quite an issue. I have 2 new systems that I've built with
Intel DG31 Board and a 3rd one with an Intel D965SS board. I've tried
a few different types of floppies in all of them and all of them will
boot to a few different bootable floppies, so I know the drives work
and are seen by the system board.

My problem is that under Vista it doesn't show me a floppy disk
drive. In the device manager it shows a Standard Floppy Disk
controller installed and functioning properly but their is no floppy
drive under my computer to be found.


PLEASE HELP.

"newsqlman" <> wrote in message
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> I'm having quite an issue. I have 2 new systems that I've built with
> Intel DG31 Board and a 3rd one with an Intel D965SS board. I've tried
> a few different types of floppies in all of them and all of them will
> boot to a few different bootable floppies, so I know the drives work
> and are seen by the system board.
>
> My problem is that under Vista it doesn't show me a floppy disk
> drive. In the device manager it shows a Standard Floppy Disk
> controller installed and functioning properly but their is no floppy
> drive under my computer to be found.
>
>
> PLEASE HELP.
>

Are you sure its enabled in your BIOS settings?

I believe it is since it will boot to a floppy disk just fine. The
intel board has 3 options for the floppy drive. Disable, Enable and
Automatic. Enable & Automatic will detect the drive and boot to a
bootable floppy but Vista will not show me the drive.

go to windows explorer,

double click on the address bar that is now what is called the breadcrumb,
so you can type

and type a:\ and press enter

see what happens

report back





"newsqlman" <> wrote in message
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>I believe it is since it will boot to a floppy disk just fine. The
> intel board has 3 options for the floppy drive. Disable, Enable and
> Automatic. Enable & Automatic will detect the drive and boot to a
> bootable floppy but Vista will not show me the drive.
>
>

"newsqlman" <> wrote in message
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>I believe it is since it will boot to a floppy disk just fine. The
> intel board has 3 options for the floppy drive. Disable, Enable and
> Automatic. Enable & Automatic will detect the drive and boot to a
> bootable floppy but Vista will not show me the drive.
>
>

Is this a upgrade or fresh install?
Can you give us a little history. Did you ever see the floppy or just
noticed it was missing etc..

When I type that and press enter it gives me:

Windows can not find 'a:\'. Check the spelling and try again.


It gives that to me on all of them. I did try and type in d:\ just to
make sure I was at the right location
and it went to my cd drive.

Any ideas?

I'm stumped.

All 3 of the systems are fresh installations. On one of them to test
things I loaded XP and the drive works fine from start to finish. But
with a fresh load of Vista it doesn't show up in My Computer. Will
still boot to a bootable floppy but not accessible or visible in
Vista.

Just shows the Standard Floppy Controller under device manager. When
I disable the floppy controller on the board that goes away. So I
know something is happening.

what if you REMOVE the floppy from the device manager ?

then right click on the first icon on the very top of the device manager
tree and select "scan for hardware changes"

it should redetect the drive normally and install it again...





"newsqlman" <> wrote in message
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> All 3 of the systems are fresh installations. On one of them to test
> things I loaded XP and the drive works fine from start to finish. But
> with a fresh load of Vista it doesn't show up in My Computer. Will
> still boot to a bootable floppy but not accessible or visible in
> Vista.
>
> Just shows the Standard Floppy Controller under device manager. When
> I disable the floppy controller on the board that goes away. So I
> know something is happening.
>

I tried to remove the Standard Floppy Controller and let it redetect
as you state. But it just redects and still no floppy drive under my
computer or accessible as the other individual told me to try.

For fun I tried a USB Floppy Drive and it shows up fine. But I don't
want to use a USB Floppy Drive I want to use the controller on the
board and wonder what the heck the problem is between intel and MS
Vista on this one.

if you have an XP machine there, download the TWEAK UI
power toy, install it on XP then copy the programs EXE to vista,
it will work.

you will see there that it has the option to hide the drives under MY
COMPUTER> DRIVES

see if its hidden or not. If its not, you can still try to make it hidden
and re enable it...

I am suspecting that even this will not work, because usually when a drive
is hidden and you type a:\ for example, it goes to the drive despite it
being normally invisible.

Perhaps this drive is not compatible with vista??? how about changing the
internal drives with another machine to see if vista will "see" the other
internal one....







"newsqlman" <> wrote in message
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>I tried to remove the Standard Floppy Controller and let it redetect
> as you state. But it just redects and still no floppy drive under my
> computer or accessible as the other individual told me to try.
>
> For fun I tried a USB Floppy Drive and it shows up fine. But I don't
> want to use a USB Floppy Drive I want to use the controller on the
> board and wonder what the heck the problem is between intel and MS
> Vista on this one.
>