HELP: Floppy Drive Problem

M

Mjusterielnu Aenui

Just upgraded my system to WinXP Professional the other
day and installed SP1a also. I noticed that my floppy
drive stopped working. I have a Sony FDD -- worked fine
with my previous OS (Win 98SE), but now whenever I insert
a disk I get an error saying "the disk is not formatted,
etc." . If I try to fromat the disk it says "there is no
disk in A:" (what gives?)

I also changed my floppy cable, even my floppy drive (I
borrowed a TEAC FDD from a friend) -- still I can't get
it to work. I also tried different "brands" of floppy
disks -- same result. Tried deleting/reinstalling floppy
driver but same thing happened. Funny thing is if I move
my Sony floppy/cable combo to a machine running Win98 it
works.

What wrong with my system? My floppy worked fine before
(with Win 98SE). Is this a "BUG" in Win XP?
 
A

Alex Marshall

Try booting from the floppy drive with a DOS startup disk. If that works you
know the drive itself is fine and configured correctly. In that case check
in the device manager and see if the drive is recognized properly.

If it does not boot you'll know that it's not XP's fault and that there is
something wrong with the hardware or it is not configured properly in the
bios.
 
M

Mjusterielnu Aenui

Floppy boots fine.

Tsk tsk --

After browsing this newsgroup I noticed a lot of similar
problems. There is definitely something wrong with WinXP
 
F

Frank

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