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Floppy drive disabled/not working

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caddy2005

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Aug 23, 2005
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A "technical" friend of my daughter has been securing her laptop for her (spybot, AVG, firewall etc) as part of his degree. Now she cannot access her A drive! Her friend cannot remember what he did to disable the drive, but when you insert a floppy disk and try and read it, it says "incorrect function". "A" shows as enabled in device manager, and the green light on the drive shines. Is it possible that he edited a local policy to disable it? Even when you logon locally as Administrator, the drive is disabled/not working. The bios shows it as enabled. Maybe he just broke the A drive. I have tried various disks, to no avail. Any thoughts will be gratefully received.

When I meet her "friend", I'm going to disable something!! [evil]
 
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