a drive not working

[tmm5899]

my a drive was working and i uninstalled office 2003 and now the floppy drive does not recognize disks it will not allow me to format disks either what can i do to fix this problem i looked in device manager and it says it is working properly the operating system is windows xp

[unionflag]

It may be nothing worse than dirty read-write heads in the floppy drive. They get gummed up over time with dust, dirt and material from the surface of the recording media. You can buy specially made cleaning kits for them -- just a floppy disk containing absorbent cleaning pad & a bottle of mild solvent.

Don't put too much faith in Device Manager. It's usefulness is limited to problems with drivers and resource conflicts. It has no idea if a device is broken or needs cleaning.

[wincibal]

my corel quattro pro 8 cd can not operated in windows vista, how to solve this problem?

[tmm5899]

it worked before i uninstalled word 2003

Originally Posted by unionflag

It may be nothing worse than dirty read-write heads in the floppy drive. They get gummed up over time with dust, dirt and material from the surface of the recording media. You can buy specially made cleaning kits for them -- just a floppy disk containing absorbent cleaning pad & a bottle of mild solvent.

Don't put too much faith in Device Manager. It's usefulness is limited to problems with drivers and resource conflicts. It has no idea if a device is broken or needs cleaning.