Home network question/Floppy Drive

[jetpunk2000]

I have a question. I want to access my brother's hard drive so I can copy something over to mine. We are hooked up to a cable modem through a router. Is there any way for me to map his harddrive so I can access it?

Also, I've been having issues with my floppy drive. I don't normally use it. In fact if I've used it twice in 2 1/2 years with the computer I'd be shocked. I'm taking a programming course now though, and need to use it. The only problem is, whenever I put a disk in it whirrrrrs and tells me the disk is not formatted. This is a problem for 2 reasons. 1. The disks are preformatted. 2. The particular disk I'm trying to use actually has stuff on it.

This has been an issue for a bit now (I actually tried to use it about a montha ago with disks and the same thing happened. Tried the disks on another computer and they were fine.), and I'm wondering if it's a hardware conflict or something.

[Draft Dodger]

I would guess a bad floppy drive, especially if they work on another machine. USB floppy drives are pretty cheap - $40 or so, and internal drives are even cheaper - $20 ish.

setting up a home network is easy - windows has a home networking wizard that walks you through the process to set it up on both machines.

[jetpunk2000]

I would guess a bad floppy drive, especially if they work on another machine. USB floppy drives are pretty cheap - $40 or so, and internal drives are even cheaper - $20 ish.

setting up a home network is easy - windows has a home networking wizard that walks you through the process to set it up on both machines.


Yea I was pokin around the net last night tryin to see if anyone else had encountered the floppy thing and a lot of people seemed to believe it was an XP thing. Also a lot of bad drive theories, but I was curious if anyone around here had any experience since there were a lot of theories but no real conclusive ideas.

[gstelmack]

I have a question. I want to access my brother's hard drive so I can copy something over to mine. We are hooked up to a cable modem through a router. Is there any way for me to map his harddrive so I can access it?
You're both on the same router? Then this could be easy depending on the operating system. Look up "Windows File Sharing" in Windows Help. XP will even walk you through it with nice wizards and everything.

[jetpunk2000]

Yea, both on the same router. Unfortunately, his comp is password protected and I guess I have to be able to access his computer to do it. I'll just have to wait til he gets home.

[Silver Owl]

Yea I was pokin around the net last night tryin to see if anyone else had encountered the floppy thing and a lot of people seemed to believe it was an XP thing. Also a lot of bad drive theories, but I was curious if anyone around here had any experience since there were a lot of theories but no real conclusive ideas.

I have had the same problem with floppy drives on windows 98 and Me, so I don't think that it is an XP problem. I bought new drives 3 times and finally used one from an older machine and haven't had any trouble with it. Newer floppy drives seem to be cheaply made these days.