USB Floppy Drive driver error  

Hi Justme, thanks for your reply (and your excellent english too), I previously tried your solution to the floppy error before re-installing vista but it did not work for me, there is no danger of a system crash for those of you who are worried. I'm now doubting myself, because if it has worked for you then I may have not done this correctly. I'm now wondering whether to try this again. For those fo you who are going to try it I would just re-locate the win7 driver sfloppy to your documents folder and replace it with the vista sfloppy file. If anyone else has success then I will be very grateful if they could post a reply to confirm this. I will probably try it at the weekend myself anyway. I hope I got it wrong, because if this is all that is needed to recify the problem, then it is a very simple solution. Happy days

It is a little tricky . I got a small program that i found on google in order to take ownership because with 1 click you will be the owner of a specific file or folder . I used that program because i saw that when i replaced sfloppy file , win7 replaced with his original one again . So i took ownership of entire folder /Drivers/ and denied all SYSTEM permissions. Then i replaced the sfloppy file with vista version and did the same thing : took ownership and denied SYSTEM permissions on sfloppy file . Next thing you have to uninstal your Floppy Drive from Device Manager and connect your Floppy Drive Again .

This is all i did to make it work .

Cya

Hi justme, I did a reinstall today after copying the sfloppy.sys file to a USB stick. Like you have described I took ownership of the file although I used dos commands "takeown" and "iclcs" to do it, I will post another reply when I have time but if you google how to take ownership you'll find out how to do it. I then deleted the file sfloppy.sys and copied the one I had saved from Vista. Low and behold it worked!! I actually took ownership of the whold drivers folder but found that the system was then unable to install other requierd drivers for other devices, so I re-did it again just taking control of the sfloppy.sys file. Thanks for your advice, I must have gotten it wrong first time and I'm glad I re-tried it again. Hopefully the other people having the same problem will be able to do the same. If anyone needs further info then I will provide it tomorrow hopefully. Cheers, Ben

Happy to hear that . I discovered this by mistake . Was looking at the floppy drivers in Device Manager and i was thinking at Vista

Cya

Yeah, worked for me.

Just zipped out the sfloppy.sys file from Vista cd, using 7zip.

Thanks u guys, that REALLY bothered me. Hopefully MS will fix the bug.

Old post I know, but I have also just run into this. Needed to get some info from a floppy so hooked up my USB floppy and drive and no go. I am using RC1, anyone now on RTM and having the same issue?

Just follow the steps above and you'll be fine.

I solved my issue by going to "Computer Management / Disk Management". The USB drive was there, but no drive letter was assigned to it. Once I assigned a letter, the problem was resolved.

hmmm, so today I go to do one of the solutions. I plug it in and it's recognized and working just fine now. No idea what changed from then to now.

Thanks for all the suggestions

Like other posts, not sure if this helps but wanted to offer that I am also having driver issues with my Win7 64-Bit machine.

These are my current device issues:
1) My old external Mitsumi Floppy Drive is NOT recognized by Win7 64-Bit OS, however, same device works with my Vista 64-bit machine; and

2) My new SanDisk 8GB flash drive (SDCZ36.008) is not recognized by Win7 64-Bit machine; however, same device works with my Vista 64-Bit machine.
I tried to download updated drivers from SanDisk website but site doesn't show Win7 as an OS option.

BTW, both of my machines/OS's are updated daily with Microsoft updates.


My humble opinion is, Win7 64-Bit is generally much better than all its predecessors and I will continue to be patient with Microsoft while I HOPE it is working the little/side issues.