I posted message before and was unable to respond to follow up questions. here we go again. My floppy drive will not recognize a disk in it. If I go to safe mode it will . So if I want to use my floppy I have to go into safe mode when starting up. I have tried booting my computer with a blank disk and I will get an error message so it is working, but I assume there is some conflict with other hardware, but I can't figure out how to find it.