On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:29:50PM +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote: [...] > The issue here is that this is a notebook (an IBM Thinlpad) and it doesn't > *have* a floppy drive! In fact I havent owned a notebook with one in > almost 7 years! Wild guess: Does that laptop have the *option* to add a floppy (e.g. as a module)? If so, maybe there are some settings in the BIOS to switch off any floppy related stuff - just an idea. Cheerio. Thomas -- ===> Netiquette - read it, use it: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html <=== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!"