My Computer does not have any floppy disk drives. No matter how often I uninstall Floppy Disk Drives a: and B: as soon as I boot up, these two drives are re-installed. I am guessing that a corrected entry in the registry may cure the problem, but I do not have the knowledge toperform any corrections. A boot disk (or a startup disk) is a recovery media (CD, DVD or floppy disk for older Windows versions) that you can use to start Windows, if it became damaged or corrupted somehow. The term “boot disk” was mostly used in connection with Windows XP (and older versions) and, in some cases, with Windows Vista.

Bad floppy or error with diskette

This issue is most often caused by a bad floppy diskette. Try alternate floppy diskettes in the computer. If other diskettes can be read in the computer is likely a bad diskette.

If the diskette contains valuable information or information that is only able to be found on this diskette, try reading the diskette in another computer. If the diskette works in the computer, there may still be errors on the diskette. We recommend you copy the contents of the diskette to your hard drive as a backup, and try using an alternate floppy diskette to transfer the information.

Bad floppy diskette drive

If no floppy diskette can be read in the computer, but other computers read the diskettes, run through floppy diskette drive troubleshooting.

How To Read Floppy Disk With Vista Os

Data recovery

If this information is valuable information that cannot be lost and is not stored anywhere else, you may want to consider a data recovery service for lost or deleted files.

Floppy Disk Reader

Additional information

How To Use A Floppy Disk

• See our floppy disk and floppy drive pages for further related information.