Floppy Drive Trouble

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I'm having problems with the 3 1/2 drive on a 8565C HP not recognizin
a disk in it. When I select the drive I get the message "A: is no
accessible. The device is not ready." I've used Device Manager an
removed the the floppy and have reset Bios to "default". Still no go
I replaced the cable. Then I replaced the drive. No luck. An
suggestions on a next step.

Thank
 
Hawkeye said:
I'm having problems with the 3 1/2 drive on a 8565C HP not recognizing
a disk in it. When I select the drive I get the message "A: is not
accessible. The device is not ready." I've used Device Manager and
removed the the floppy and have reset Bios to "default". Still no go.
I replaced the cable. Then I replaced the drive. No luck. Any
suggestions on a next step.

Thanks
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the floppy:
is either bad
or possibly written to, by a drive that is out of alignment, so the floppy
can be read on the drive that made it, but not on most other drives because
of this anomaly.
 
Hawkeye said:
I'm having problems with the 3 1/2 drive on a 8565C HP not recognizing
a disk in it. When I select the drive I get the message "A: is not
accessible. The device is not ready." I've used Device Manager and
removed the the floppy and have reset Bios to "default". Still no go.
I replaced the cable. Then I replaced the drive. No luck. Any
suggestions on a next step.

Thanks
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Try flipping power cable over where it attaches to floppy. HTH, s
 
I'm having problems with the 3 1/2 drive on a 8565C HP not recognizing
a disk in it. When I select the drive I get the message "A: is not
accessible. The device is not ready." I've used Device Manager and
removed the the floppy and have reset Bios to "default". Still no go.
I replaced the cable. Then I replaced the drive. No luck. Any
suggestions on a next step.

Thanks
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Sounds like the drive has gone bad. On the outside chance though, you
are connection it with pin1 opposite to where pin1 goes on a HDD,
right?
 
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