Floppy Disk Drive Problem

[Eyman]

Hi,

Ive just replaced my floppy disk after the old one died. Now I have this
problem where the drive is is recognised by the 'whirring sound' prior to
post, but it will not boot to a floppy or be operational in windows.

The bios is configured to boot to a floppy first as it was with the pevious
drive. After posting it sits on a 'updating dmi pool' screen while it looks
for something in the floppy to boot to with the floppy light lit up. It
stays like this for a few seconds and then gives up and boots to windows.

Windows sees the floppy a: drive under file explorer, and under control
panel the floppy drive and the floppy drive controller are both seen without
any problems.

Trying to access a disk that I know has data on it within windows comes up
with a 'insert disk into a:' error. Ive tried other disks as well.

Ive swapped cables and this doesnt seem to be the problem.

The drive doesnt seem to be a problem as it is accessed but cant seem to
read data.

I havent changed any bios settings and Im 100% sure its plugged in
correctly.

Can someone please help?

Thanks in advance

Eyman

 

[Arno Wagner]

Hi,
Ive just replaced my floppy disk after the old one died. Now I have this
problem where the drive is is recognised by the 'whirring sound' prior to
post, but it will not boot to a floppy or be operational in windows.
The bios is configured to boot to a floppy first as it was with the pevious
drive. After posting it sits on a 'updating dmi pool' screen while it looks
for something in the floppy to boot to with the floppy light lit up. It
stays like this for a few seconds and then gives up and boots to windows.
Windows sees the floppy a: drive under file explorer, and under control
panel the floppy drive and the floppy drive controller are both seen without
any problems.
Trying to access a disk that I know has data on it within windows comes up
with a 'insert disk into a:' error. Ive tried other disks as well.
Ive swapped cables and this doesnt seem to be the problem.
The drive doesnt seem to be a problem as it is accessed but cant seem to
read data.
I havent changed any bios settings and Im 100% sure its plugged in
correctly.
Can someone please help?
Thanks in advance
Eyman

I suspect a defective floppy. I have seen some recently. At less
than 10 Euro end-user price QA is not the best.

Arno

 

[Rod Speed]

Ive just replaced my floppy disk after the old one died.

How did you decide that the old one had died ?
If it was something other than the drive itself that
had died, replacing the drive wont fix the problem.

Now I have this problem where the drive is is recognised
by the 'whirring sound' prior to post, but it will not boot to
a floppy or be operational in windows.

Which makes it much more likely that
it isnt actually the drive that has died.

The bios is configured to boot to a floppy first as it was with the pevious
drive. After posting it sits on a 'updating dmi pool' screen while it looks
for something in the floppy to boot to with the floppy light lit up. It stays
like this for a few seconds and then gives up and boots to windows.

Thats not surprising given that it cant read the diskette as evidenced later.

Windows sees the floppy a: drive under file explorer,
and under control panel the floppy drive and the floppy
drive controller are both seen without any problems.

Trying to access a disk that I know has data on it within windows
comes up with a 'insert disk into a:' error. Ive tried other disks as well.

Ive swapped cables and this doesnt seem to be the problem.

The drive doesnt seem to be a problem as
it is accessed but cant seem to read data.

I havent changed any bios settings and
Im 100% sure its plugged in correctly.

Can someone please help?

Most likely the floppy controller the other end of
the ribbon cable is plugged into is what's died.

Try the new drive and cable in a different system to be sure
that its not just very bad luck of two dead drives in a row.