Floppy drives not resetting

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2 total messages Started by Dave Laird Fri, 01 Jan 1993 00:44

#637

Author: Dave Laird
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 00:44

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I am running Windows 3.1 on a 386 and suddenly have begun having trouble 
reading two floppy disks (either drive) in succession. For when I install 
the second diskette, it still reads the directory from the first. 
Thinking it might be the cache acting up, I discontinued all use of 
floppy/hard disk caching, but to no avail. I can no longer install 
software from within Windows. I think it probably has something to do 
with changeline support in Windows, but I am uncertain what steps to 
take. Any ideas?


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Re: Floppy drives not resetting

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Author: Mark Wilson
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 12:50

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I dunno if this will help, but I had a similar problem, and was given the
simple (if not particularly intuitive) solution: if you want to re-scan
the directory of the currently selected drive/dir (whether it's A:, B:,
C: or whatever), just press F5.  This is especially nice for floppies,
but is useful if you've just done some file/dir moves.

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