3.5 HHD drive problem

[xanth]

Greetings all,

I have not used my 3.5 drive in about a year or so and found myself needing
it.
I installed a disk and tried to read it.
I got an error message that said

A:\ is not accessible
No ID address mark was found on the floopy disk.

I tried sevral disk all with same problem.

Thanks for your help.
Dave-

 

[Gerard Bok]

I have not used my 3.5 drive in about a year or so and found myself needing
it.
I installed a disk and tried to read it.
I got an error message that said

A:\ is not accessible
No ID address mark was found on the floopy disk.

I tried sevral disk all with same problem.

3.5 drive as in floppy drive ?
In that case, my first guess would be: connector mounted upside
down.
And the very sad attempting to read a floppy while the
drive's connector is upside down often destroys a vital part of
all disks you attempted to read.

But maybe you are lucky and 'only' forgot to connect the power
connector.

 

[xanth]

Thanks for your help,

drive is up and running.

needed it for a Pinewood derby race, we have an old Compac w/o cdrom and its
so old that it was a USB 1.0 ( going back to Win 98 days) so it wont even
find a usb flash drive.

Xanth

 

[Grinder]

Sometimes it's possible to look at the chipset the drive
controller/adapter uses and find a driver for Win98 that
way, if the manufacturer doesn't offer a driver for '98.

I've had great success with these Windows 98 Mass Storage drivers:

http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php

You have to be careful and install the version that matches you edition
of Windows 98. I can only vouch for the Windows 98 SE one--it has
worked for a wide variety of thumb drives.