5 1/4 floppy?

[hazel]

My pc is not recognising the 3 1/2 floppy at all, its
displaying 5 1/4. I have removed the 5 1/4 from using the
device manager and tried adding the drivers for the 3 1/2
but it keeps coming up as 5 1/4. the bios displays 3 1/2
as the a drive.

any ideas?

 

[Jim Macklin]

BIOS check???



| My pc is not recognising the 3 1/2 floppy at all, its
| displaying 5 1/4. I have removed the 5 1/4 from using the
| device manager and tried adding the drivers for the 3 1/2
| but it keeps coming up as 5 1/4. the bios displays 3 1/2
| as the a drive.
|
| any ideas?

 

[Frank]

hazel wrote:

| My pc is not recognising the 3 1/2 floppy at all, its
| displaying 5 1/4. I have removed the 5 1/4 from using the
| device manager and tried adding the drivers for the 3 1/2
| but it keeps coming up as 5 1/4. the bios displays 3 1/2
| as the a drive.
|
| any ideas?

Reads like the FDD controller in the BIO's is disabled.
This legacy 5 1/4 will come up if it is so.

 

[E. Barry Bruyea]

hazel wrote:

| My pc is not recognising the 3 1/2 floppy at all, its
| displaying 5 1/4. I have removed the 5 1/4 from using the
| device manager and tried adding the drivers for the 3 1/2
| but it keeps coming up as 5 1/4. the bios displays 3 1/2
| as the a drive.
|
| any ideas?

Reads like the FDD controller in the BIO's is disabled.
This legacy 5 1/4 will come up if it is so.

How old is the computer??