Help..! A:\ not showing up

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I recently install a new hard drive via USB and now I go to load some work info from the floppy and the drive doesnt even show up anymore.. any ideas on how to fix this? System Restore and Uninstalling the USB drive didnt work, and I cant seem to activate it via CP settings :banghead:
 
From what it says, you have too much hardware.

Click resources and search through the list to find one that isnt taken.. Thats all i can suggest.
 
What operating system is it?

Without knowing that, it's difficult, but I would suggest that you have a device conflict somewhere. Have a look to see if you have any 'extra' drive controllers, either IDE or SCSI. Some USB devices install themselves as SCSI Host Adaptors, which can cause conflicts if you have an actual SCSI adaptor or system in the computer. Likewise, if the USB device installs itself as an IDE controller, the same thing can happen.

Do this simple, quick test: Stop the hard drive, disconnect it, and see if you can see the floppy drive. If so, it's to do with the active resources that the drive itself is using. Next, remove the USB HD, and restart the system - can it see the floppy drive now?

Check with your hardware vendors' web sites to see if there are any more up to date drivers than the ones you are using - this fixed a spurious problem for me last week.

But if you don't fix it, please let us know the OS.
 
I'm using Windows XP and the test didnt work, I am looking for the most recent driver for it now.
 
I fixed it :D

I had to uninstall the floppy driver and disable the USB drive.
When I restarted it searched for the new hardware and eventually found it. So now it works :)
 
I found this on a newsgroup at Google:


I've just recovered from exactly this problem - again after installing
audio software. In this case I think it was Waves software which also
installed something called TPkd - which I think is something made by a
company called Pace to combat piracy.

Unfortunately this installs something which XP sees as a non-Plug and
Play device - which hogs IRQ6, knocking out your floppy disk drive.

To eliminate this I had to do a number of things. First of all go to
Device Manager (right click My Computer, select
Properties/Hardware/Device Manager). Now select View/Show Hidden
Devices. This adds "Non-Plug and Play drivers" to this list. In here
you should find TPkd, which must be uninstalled (select from right
click menu).

Then you need to delete anything associated with this in the system.
To be absolutely sure, I did a file search for tpkd* - which in my
case found five files, including two each of .sys and tpkdboot and one
vxd. These went straight into the recycle bin.

Finally I took a look in the tpkdboot files and found the registry
instructions which they had added to my system. Being reckless I
didn't make a back-up of the registry first, but I'd advise it! Then I
went to the following folder:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TPkd]

This seems to hold all the TPkd information, and I deleted it at this
level - no more TPkd of any description in the registry.

Finally I rebooted and after a couple of tries (I'd not done all this
together, but by trial and error got here) everything now runs
smoothly again.

I've written this out in detail because your problem sounds absolutely
identical to mine. After reading around the net I found many other
problems of a similar nature, and maybe this would solve some of those
too - but let me know if this is helpful to you!
Click to expand...
 
I think my way was a lot shorter and faster lol

by the way.. what did you search for? I tried a search on google and found nothing useful
 
I searched for "TPkd" and then clicked on the Groups tab. In your pic, it said IRQ 6 was being used by TPkd. I didn't know what that was, so I searched for it and came up lucky. :)
 

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