A drive

[Guest]

I cannot get the a drive to work. it wont read a disk that I know is good. I
troubleshooted the A drive but it says that is working fine.

 

[Jim Robin]

Right click A drive / properties / tools / error checking.

Jim

 

[John R Weiss]

I cannot get the a drive to work. it wont read a disk that I know is good.
I
troubleshooted the A drive but it says that is working fine.

Floppy drives can get out of alignment so they cannot read from disks
created on other drives, and other drives may not be able to read disks
created on the bad drive.

Buy a new floppy drive. They're cheap.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I cannot get the a drive to work. it wont read a disk that I know is good.
I
troubleshooted the A drive but it says that is working fine.

Was the diskette good on an older system, but not the XP system? Or, was
the diskette readable in the XP system previously?

The reason for the question is that with XP, Microsoft changed the way
diskettes are read, and some perfectly good diskettes that are readable on
Win9x systems are seen as unformatted by XP.

If that happens, you need to take the diskette back to a Win9x system and
copy the files to the hard disk, then use a diskette that was formatted on
XP. Or, use a USB "thumb" drive, or zip and email the files, or any other
method of file transfer.

Alternately, the drive itself may be failing in a way that the drive
troubleshooter can't detect, and it should be replaced; this is inexpensive
and simple. Or the diskette may have corrupted. There are file recovery
tools for corrupted diskettes.

HTH
-pk

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I cannot get the a drive to work. it wont read a disk that I know is
good. I troubleshooted the A drive but it says that is working fine.

Was this diskette created on a computer running an older version of Windows?
Read http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=140060 and
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q309623

You should be able to format a new diskette on your Windows XP computer,
then copy the existing diskette to it on a Windows 98 computer. The
resulting diskette should be readable by Windows XP.

 

[DatabaseBen]

have you tried exploring it via the computer management console under admin
tools?