Floppy disk drive

[Abdulah]

BlankHello,I have a Dell computer,1.9 MHZ,and my 3.5" floppy will not recognize ANY floppies,it keeps saying:Insert disk...or:The disk is not formatted,and then:Windows cannot finish formatting......
Question: Is there any easy way to reinstall this drive?
Thanks

Alvaro

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[Kelly]

Hi,

Floppy Disk is Not Accessible, Not Formatted, or Not Recognized by Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;140060



BlankHello,I have a Dell computer,1.9 MHZ,and my 3.5" floppy will not
recognize ANY floppies,it keeps saying:Insert disk...or:The disk is not
formatted,and then:Windows cannot finish formatting......
Question: Is there any easy way to reinstall this drive?
Thanks

Alvaro

P.S. Please reply to group

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

Hello,I have a Dell computer,1.9 MHZ,and my 3.5" floppy will not
recognize ANY floppies,it keeps saying:Insert disk...or:The disk is
not formatted,and then:Windows cannot finish formatting......
Question: Is there any easy way to reinstall this drive?
Thanks

Alvaro

P.S. Please reply to group

Please don't post in HTML - these groups are plain text only. There is a
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[Joh N.]

Miss Perspiration Stink, after spending 3 minutes figuring out which end of the

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Sieg Heil!

 

[Plato]

Floppy Disk is Not Accessible, Not Formatted, or Not Recognized by Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;140060

From 140060

"RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, re-format the floppy disk with Windows 98,
Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or
Windows Server 2003."

Not a good idea if you have data on the disk eh?

 

[Kelly]

Yeah well.....don't kill the messenger comes to mind. )

 

[Abdulah]

I do not have anything of value in this disk,but I think the problem maybe
that it is an old disk,not sure how old,but my question remains: Do you
know how to reinstall the floppy drive,without reformatting the hard disk?
Thanks

Abdulah

 

[Danny Mingledorff]

If you thinnk your problem is with the drive itself, and not the floppy
disc, have you tried deleting the drive from Device Manager, rebooting the
machine, at letting it reinstall the drivers?

....danny

 

[Abdulah]

I found out I was posting in HTML,my apologies! :-(

I do not have any valuble data in this floppy disk,but the problem is that
the WindowsXP will not format it.
Now,my original question is:

How could I reinstall the floppy drive "A" without reformatting the hard
disk?
Thanks

Abdulah

 

[Malke]

I found out I was posting in HTML,my apologies! :-(

I do not have any valuble data in this floppy disk,but the problem is
that the WindowsXP will not format it.
Now,my original question is:

How could I reinstall the floppy drive "A" without reformatting the
hard disk?
Thanks

Abdulah

Does your Windows XP floppy drive read other floppy disks? If so, throw
the bad floppy away and move on. If not, replace the floppy drive
(hardware). You won't be doing any formatting of disks for that.

Malke

 

[Abdulah]

Malke,thanks for your response,none of my floppies are reading,but I have
not tried a fresh,brand new one,and don't remember if I ever opened one of
those with this computer (1 1/2 years old),I will buy new floppies and see
what happens,I just hope for the best!
Thanks a lot

Abdulah