A drive woes

[Jeff S.]

Dear folks,

After installing Windows XP and Office 2000, for some
reason there is no 3.5 disc drive option to either save
or load from files while using Word. I checked using the
Accel program and it, too, did not have an optioon to
save/load from the floppy drive. The other 2 CD disc
drives showed up on the list of drives to save/load to
and from. Is there a way to acess the 3.5 floppy drive
so I can do work from a 3.5 floppy disc? Is there
something from a set-up menu I can acess the drive from?
I don't have any CD RW's and all my work is saved on 3.5
floppy discs. Before going from Window (* to XP, the 3.5
floppy drive was there on the list of drives to save/load
work but after the upadte to XP, the 3.5 floppy disc
drive option was gone. Please, please, please help me
find this option because I can't do my schoolwork without
the 3.5 drive. Thank you for taking the time to answer
my question.
Jeff S.

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

After installing Windows XP and Office 2000, for some
reason there is no 3.5 disc drive option to either save
or load from files while using Word.

The fact that the drive is not detected is more of a Windows or hardware
issue, and I would suggest posting to the Windows XP hardware NG.

On another note, it is strongly recommended that you do NOT save or open
files (esp Word docs!) directly to/from a floppy disk or other removable
disk like rewritable CDs. This inevitably leads to file (and/or floppy)
corruption, and then another sob story on one of these newsgroups. Always
always always save to your local hard drive first before copying elsewhere.

Mike Williams - Office MVP http://www.mvps.org/faq/

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