Windows floppy drive access

[tromans]

Hello, I am using windows 98se with an abit motherboard. I all so use a sony mavica floppy disk camera to do photo buttons and after each event I copy all the pictures to my hard drive using windows explorer. Which means I access the floppy drive around 100 times each time I make buttons. The problem is that on one computer I must click on the hard drive or something else before the windows will reread the contents of the floppy. I have another computer running windows 98se that I can put a new floppy in and click the floppy drive it reads everything, put a different floppy in click the floppy drive it rereads the contents of the a drive and shows the new files. How can I make the first computer reread the contents of the floppy drive every time I click on it?
Thanks for any help tromans

[cadetstimp]

F5 will force explorer to refresh (reread) drive contents.

Next time your selected on the floppy drive just try hitting F5 to force explorer to reread the disk.

[tromans]

Thanks for the reply, I was hopping that there would be a registry edit to fix it instead of a key stroke, I am trying to make as few moves as possible to accomplish this.

[Toddly]

I dunno hitting F5 is pretty easy. If you are changing disks and then put in another you can still use F5 to read the new contents.

[Ruler2112]

I've never used em, and it's somewhat off-topic, but if you really want to make as few moves as possible, you might want to check these out. I saw somewhere (can't remember where- sorry) that had a solid-state floppy disk, using a compact flash card or something similar. It looked really cool and could hold something like 128 meg before you had to slap in a new stick. It was also supposed to be much faster than a floppy, but compatible with all floppy drives because the computer can't tell the difference; it just goes much faster.

You might want to check to see if you can find something like this if you think it would be of use. (If I would have had a digital camera, I would've snapped it up- it was on clearance for $35! )

[Toddly]

Originally posted by Ruler2112
I've never used em, and it's somewhat off-topic, but if you really want to make as few moves as possible, you might want to check these out. I saw somewhere (can't remember where- sorry) that had a solid-state floppy disk, using a compact flash card or something similar. It looked really cool and could hold something like 128 meg before you had to slap in a new stick. It was also supposed to be much faster than a floppy, but compatible with all floppy drives because the computer can't tell the difference; it just goes much faster.

You might want to check to see if you can find something like this if you think it would be of use. (If I would have had a digital camera, I would've snapped it up- it was on clearance for $35! )

You can get a Flashpath floppy adaptor that takes Smart Media cards. It reads like a floppy. I have one for my camera. I don't know if it would work in a Sony Mavica though.

[tromans]

The way the software works that I use to make the photo buttons is designed to access the floppy drive for the picture, if you put more than 1 picture on a floppy it gets cumbersome and slows you down. The fastest way to use the software is 1 picture per floppy, hence the reason why I need to refresh the veiw of the floppy disk with a single click. I have reloaded windows several time on the notebook that I use some times it loads where you can just keep clicking the floppy and it refreshes, some times it doesn't so it must be somewhere in the registry, but where I don't know.