Urgent, Pls advise with resolving my Floppy Drive 1.44MB

[Don]

I have vexing and very annoying problems that I've
encountered these few
days with my abt 1yr old Sony Floppy Disk Drive 1.44MB.
My O/S is using Win
XP Pro and AOpen AX-3SP mobo. Each time, I insert any new
or copied files on
my diskettes, I would experienced this dialog prompting
me this; " the disk
in drive A is not formatted. Do you wish to format it
now? " Clicking the
"yes" and it will shows "This disk cannot be formatted"
with either options
of "Quick format or the normal full format", all these
attempts even with using brand new and
already loaded diskettes that is usable with other system
shows this same
results! Next, I used another workable, non-defective HP
brand 1.44MB Floppy
Disk Drive and the same above mentioned inability to
format and etc...is encountered again. Therefore, please
can
someone kindly understands what is wrong or maybe, my
mobo's default FDD
port is malfunctioned or my FDD's cable is gone??? But I
believe that the cable is correctly inserted & there is
lights shown once the disk drive is click. FYI, this
error is never
encountered before and my system is able to make full
usage of this drive
without any hitch except recently. Thanks for the advise
and as my news server doesn't provide this newsgroup for
downloading and therefore, I really appreciate that if
you have the answer to resolve this problem, can please
kindly forward a copy of email to my email address. Thank
you very much.

 

[Frank]

Don wrote:
| I have vexing and very annoying problems that I've
| encountered these few
| days with my abt 1yr old Sony Floppy Disk Drive 1.44MB.
| My O/S is using Win
| XP Pro and AOpen AX-3SP mobo. Each time, I insert any new
| or copied files on
| my diskettes, I would experienced this dialog prompting
| me this; " the disk
| in drive A is not formatted. Do you wish to format it
| now? " Clicking the
| "yes" and it will shows "This disk cannot be formatted"
| with either options
| of "Quick format or the normal full format", all these
| attempts even with using brand new and
| already loaded diskettes that is usable with other system
| shows this same
| results! Next, I used another workable, non-defective HP
| brand 1.44MB Floppy
| Disk Drive and the same above mentioned inability to
| format and etc...is encountered again. Therefore, please
| can
| someone kindly understands what is wrong or maybe, my
| mobo's default FDD
| port is malfunctioned or my FDD's cable is gone??? But I
| believe that the cable is correctly inserted & there is
| lights shown once the disk drive is click. FYI, this
| error is never
| encountered before and my system is able to make full
| usage of this drive
| without any hitch except recently. Thanks for the advise
| and as my news server doesn't provide this newsgroup for
| downloading and therefore, I really appreciate that if
| you have the answer to resolve this problem, can please
| kindly forward a copy of email to my email address. Thank
| you very much.

A shot in the dark. Make sure that the diskette is fully inserted
and that the eject button is fully out.