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I have a floppy drive installed and the computer reconizes it, it just wont read the floppy disk, it is corrupt or does it not work...
  1. 05-07-2005 #1
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    I have a floppy drive installed and the computer reconizes it, it just wont read the floppy disk, it is corrupt or does it not work
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    Is the floppy drive mounted? I am not sure what device the floppy drive might be though as my laptop doesn't have one.

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    floppies are /dev/fd0
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