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Re: I give up!

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From: PFusco1600
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:28
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>From: debstar40@aol.com 

>How do you unplug the floppy drive?  It is part of the tower.  Mine worked
>and
>now when I put a floppy in it says it is unformatted.  BS  I sent pics from
>those floppies before.  
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Shut down the computer.

Open the case and unplug the ribbon cable from the back of the floppy. 

Boot up.

Shut down.

Plug floppy back in.
Reboot.

Hopefully it will be detected and installed by XP.

Have fun.
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