Floppy Drive Failure

[Andrew C]

We are having considerable difficulties with FDDs that
fail to read known good disks. The machines will boot
into dos from the drive, but will not write or read under
Win2K.
I've been through the normal procedures including
replacing a drive with a brand new unit.

A trawl on Google produced the thread below that indicates
that this is a wide-spread problem.

Any clues?

http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=13071

 

[Russ Tanner]

Are you using Norton AV products???? I have that problem with my floppy and
optical drives with Norton AV 2004 installed. When I uninstalled the
antivirus software the problem went away...

 

[Ken]

See this kb article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;140060 Solved this
issue for me. At least it stopped me throwing away perfectly good FDD's

 

[Guest]

This may go part-way there, but how do you format a floppy
when the PC doesn't recognize it?? It TRIES to format
then fails, repeatedly!!

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
See this kb article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-

us;140060 Solved this issue for me. At least it stopped me
throwing away perfectly good FDD's

 

[Guest]

Nope. Using McAffee, and that's another tale...

 

[Russ Tanner]

I see other Norton products can cause the same effect.....

 

[Ken]

You have to use the workaround referred to lower down in the
article....Diskprobe utility

Ken.