I have a Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS laptop that includes a floppy disk drive
(a:) and a CDROM drive (d:).  (1) I cannot access these drives properly.  The
floppy disk drive can read some floppy disks and not others.  Some disks it
signals as not properly formatted, others it ...

My Windows 98SE machine has just failed after years of good service - BIOS
problem I think.
I have removed its hard drive, fitted it into a usb enclosure and connected
it to my XP Pro laptop.

I wanted to use the HD from my old Windows 98 PC for storage on my Windows
XP Home PC. so I formated the drive. Having purchased a bigger storage HD for
my XP PC I decided to refit the old drive back into my Windows 98 PC. Problem
is the computer can not find the HD so I find it ...

   One problem floppy drive in a laptop, I hear a "wine" noise (belt slip)
during an attempt to read a floppy.  I removed the floppy drive and checked
it.  I removed the belt and cleaned it with a rubber cleaner/revitalizer.
Afterwards, no more "wine" noise and the floppy drive can ...