Matt Kendall
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Floppy drive no longer works in Windows 10. How can I fix "Location is not available" error?
Hi,
I have a Windows 10 Dell Optiplex 790 that originally had Windows 7 on it. We use a USB floppy drive on it which worked fine before the Windows 10 upgrade. Now, the floppy drive comes up with a "Location is not available" error. "The disk media is not recognized. It may not be formatted." It says this for all disks--even ones that work on another Windows 10 computer that has the same USB floppy drive. Both computers are Dell and one--the floppy drive works. This one--the floppy drive has those errors. I've tried removing the driver and having it reinstall--then restarting. It still does not work. Do you have any recommendations or things I can try to make it work? Oh, and one more thing. I looked in Disk Manager and it doesn't even show up in disk manager but I do see an "A:" drive in File Explorer. Thanks in advance for your help!
I have a Windows 10 Dell Optiplex 790 that originally had Windows 7 on it. We use a USB floppy drive on it which worked fine before the Windows 10 upgrade. Now, the floppy drive comes up with a "Location is not available" error. "The disk media is not recognized. It may not be formatted." It says this for all disks--even ones that work on another Windows 10 computer that has the same USB floppy drive. Both computers are Dell and one--the floppy drive works. This one--the floppy drive has those errors. I've tried removing the driver and having it reinstall--then restarting. It still does not work. Do you have any recommendations or things I can try to make it work? Oh, and one more thing. I looked in Disk Manager and it doesn't even show up in disk manager but I do see an "A:" drive in File Explorer. Thanks in advance for your help!
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you can also test if it happens on all USB ports
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Thanks John. It turned out to be a mix of two bad floppy drives and a large batch of bad 3.5" floppy disks. I was able to get them to use usb flash drives instead of floppies as their old machine could read 1 GB usb drives too. Thanks again John!
Thank your for the update and you are very welcome.
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