win95 sees 2 x 3.5 inch 1.4 M drives

[bdux]

Can anyone please help enlighten me to the cause of this .<br>
I have come across a P.C with one 3.5 1.4M floppy drive . In CMOS only one floppy drive is shown but windows 95 shows two floppy drives. Neither drive works when selected from windows. The P.C has a Zip drive also installed this shows up ok and works .

 

Try going into device manager and removing the second drive. Then restart your computer. If it comes back, try pysically unplugging the drive and then restart, let windows boot without a floppy, then shut down and reconnect the floppy and restart, it should boot up and find only one drive. If these don't work, try changing the ribbon cable and or the floppy drive.<br>
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I hope this helps you. <p> Matthew Blyde<br><a href=mailto:mblyde@becon.org>mblyde@becon.org</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[Karl Blessing]

Your CMOS/Bios, does it let you change the type of device/size a Floppy Drive is?, and what kind of Zip Drive(Internal IDE?). <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[tschuy]

Try booting your system in SAFE mode (push F8 when the system first try's to boot Win95) and then go to the device manager and see how many fopply drives are listed. Be prepared to see a few strang things like multiple video card, keyboards, mice, and hard drives, hard drive controllers, etc. The best thing that I have found to work is to delete all the listed drives and anything else that is duplicated (with WIN95 in safe mode) and then reboot the system normally. What this does, is it cleans up the Enumerator within the registry and forces windows 95 to rebuild the system configuration. From what I see here with your problem is that there may be two floppy controllers within the device manager. But you won't see it unless you boot up the system in safe mode and check the devices.

 

[bdux]

thankyou to all who responded . the zip drive is a iomega zip 100 . ide internal drive . I have discovered through removing the drives that windows 95 is detecting a phantom floppy drive when it detects the zip drive has been plugged back in . a removable drive is being shown in my computer and a B: drive is also being shown . the a: floppy works fine when the zip drive is not in the computer and now works fine since I removed the zip and floppy and then got win95 to detect the floppy without the zip drive & then plugged in the zip and got win95 to detect it.. drive b doesn't work as it shouldn't be there . anymore idea's would be appreciated greatly .

 

[Karl Blessing]

Try setting B: to none in the BIOS, then hook up the zip drive, seeing that B: is forcefully not there, Win95 may detect the zip drive as an IDE device, and install it, might wana uninstall the Zip drivers, and the inf file, so that it can detect it clean. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[tschuy]

Need a little more information....What type of system, motherboard are you using. Also have you tried installing the Zip software (IE the zip drivers for Win95) yet. It won't work properly until you do.

 

[bdux]

I will have to get back to you on what motherboard and processor it is . I have installed the zip drivers and I have managed to get the Zip drive and A drive to both work but I still get a phantom B drive that is shown in my computer even with cmos setting at none for the b drive&nbsp;&nbsp;.