Omnibook 4100 Floppy

I am looking at my cousin's Hewlett Packard Omnibook model 4100.
It has 64 MEG RAM, 6 GB hard drive I think. Windows 98 installed.
The problem is no floppy drive access. I examined the BIOS/CMOS setting for the floppy drive and it is set at 1.44 MB. Is this correct? Or, did this unit come with a 2.88 MB floppy drive by any chance?

The HP Omnibook 4100 can be used with the floppy drive or the CDROM by swapping one for the other.

She said "No trouble with the CDROM". When I tried to access the floppy drive with a disk inserted, the indicator LED lite comes on for about 30 seconds or more, the pointer shows an hourglass, and then the messages below appear:
Using My Computer under Windows:
A:\ is not accessible.
The device is not ready.

Using the F8 key and "command prompt only" menu choice I get:
Not ready reading drive A
Abort, Retry, Fail

Device Manager reports the floppy drive as working. Any suggestions?

Try booting the notebook with the floppy device in. See if it works. It may not be recognizing the swapping. Generally when you swap, a icon will appear in the task bar telling you there has been a swap New Device.

Thanks for the reply.
There isn't an indicator in the task bar right now.
I have only tried removing the floppy drive and reinserting it.
I haven't tried the CDROM drive yet.
Do you think I may need a registry edit?
Right clicking on the floppy drive produces the expected properties.
Also getting a message at shutdown time that reads:

"Notification WND for RNAdmin (title)
This program is not responding. It may be busy, waiting for a response from you, or it may have stopped running." etc..

Anyone have any ideas?

These modern notebooks have so many suspend/resume modes,power saving, and screen blanking, and BIOS options, low power modes, and special partitions, they have become a nightmare to troubleshoot or work on.Felt like an idiot after accidently removing her special partition for suspend/resume operations. Requires the HP supplied original CD to fix too. What a hassle.Still couldn't get the floppy drive working and made a bad situation worse! I wish manufacturers would not include ANY of these options or modes.Can someone please get onboard with me here?If we can get a thousand people, we'll send a link of this post in email to HP and anyone else who make a notebook.GEEZ