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On Thu, 25 Sep 97 12:48:59 +0300, Dominique Pivard wrote: >On Tue, 26 Aug 1997 at 10:15 AM you, Grant Hilsenteger ><agh1@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>, said: > >>I am working on, and have just started to use the floppy a bit. It is a >>little eccentric it seems. When I plug it in, the computer doesn't >>recognize it always on the first go. I comes back with messages like >>"This disk is not formatted" or "Cannot read from drive A". If I move the >>drive around a bit (a gentle shake or a repositioning) it sometimes comes >>back to life, but not always. I'm curious whether anyone else has had a > >I'm not sure whether this is of any help but I got the same messages under >OS/2 until I added the following parameters to 'BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD' in >CONFIG.SYS: /A:0 /U:0 /CL:AT. These force recognition of a hot-swapped >floppy drive. Maybe there's something equivalent for Win95/WinNT, either >of which you appear to be using based on the X-mailer line of your >message. Or then your hardware may be broken. I don't think you need special parameters for NT or 95, after all, they are DOS! Also, maybe your disk is bad. Paul