floppy drive

[howie]

Thanks to all that tried to help me but the problem persists. I do
have the bios set at 1.44 ,I removed old floppy drive and installed
new one also new cable all to no avail. Any other ideas?

 

[JAD]

Thanks to all that tried to help me but the problem persists. I do
have the bios set at 1.44 ,I removed old floppy drive and installed
new one also new cable all to no avail. Any other ideas?

won't see the disk?
says the disk(all disks) is/are not formatted?
Led is not on?

 

[Franc Zabkar]

Thanks to all that tried to help me but the problem persists. I do
have the bios set at 1.44 ,I removed old floppy drive and installed
new one also new cable all to no avail. Any other ideas?

You might like to read this MS article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140060

It explains why some preformatted diskettes work fine with DOS and
Win95, but produce the "not formatted" error in Win98 and above.

However, it does not explain why you can't reformat your diskettes.

You could try using Debug from a DOS prompt. The following [edited]
output shows the content of a 1.44MB floppy diskette's boot sector.
The media descriptor byte (F0) is at location 115.

C:\WIN98SE>debug

-L 100 0 0 1
-D 100 2ff

100 EB 3C 90 2C 26 55 21 5E-49 48 43 00 02 01 01 00 .<.,&U!^IHC.....
110 02 E0 00 40 0B F0 09 00-12 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 ...@............
^^
120 00 00 00 00 00 00 29 15-39 E6 18 42 4F 4F 54 39 ......).9..BOOT9
130 38 53 45 20 20 20 46 41-54 31 32 20 20 20 33 C9 8SE FAT12 3.
140 8E D1 BC FC 7B 16 07 BD-78 00 C5 76 00 1E 56 16 ....{...x..v..V.
150 55 BF 22 05 89 7E 00 89-4E 02 B1 0B FC F3 A4 06 U."..~..N.......
160 1F BD 00 7C C6 45 FE 0F-38 4E 24 7D 20 8B C1 99 ...|.E..8N$} ...
170 E8 7E 01 83 EB 3A 66 A1-1C 7C 66 3B 07 8A 57 FC .~...:f..|f;..W.
180 75 06 80 CA 02 88 56 02-80 C3 10 73 ED 33 C9 FE u.....V....s.3..
190 06 D8 7D 8A 46 10 98 F7-66 16 03 46 1C 13 56 1E ..}.F...f..F..V.
1A0 03 46 0E 13 D1 8B 76 11-60 89 46 FC 89 56 FE B8 .F....v.`.F..V..
1B0 20 00 F7 E6 8B 5E 0B 03-C3 48 F7 F3 01 46 FC 11 ....^...H...F..
1C0 4E FE 61 BF 00 07 E8 28-01 72 3E 38 2D 74 17 60 N.a....(.r>8-t.`
1D0 B1 0B BE D8 7D F3 A6 61-74 3D 4E 74 09 83 C7 20 ....}..at=Nt...
1E0 3B FB 72 E7 EB DD FE 0E-D8 7D 7B A7 BE 7F 7D AC ;.r......}{...}.
1F0 98 03 F0 AC 98 40 74 0C-48 74 13 B4 0E BB 07 00 (e-mail address removed)......
200 CD 10 EB EF BE 82 7D EB-E6 BE 80 7D EB E1 CD 16 ......}....}....
210 5E 1F 66 8F 04 CD 19 BE-81 7D 8B 7D 1A 8D 45 FE ^.f......}.}..E.
220 8A 4E 0D F7 E1 03 46 FC-13 56 FE B1 04 E8 C2 00 .N....F..V......
230 72 D7 EA 00 02 70 00 52-50 06 53 6A 01 6A 10 91 r....p.RP.Sj.j..
240 8B 46 18 A2 26 05 96 92-33 D2 F7 F6 91 F7 F6 42 .F..&...3......B
250 87 CA F7 76 1A 8A F2 8A-E8 C0 CC 02 0A CC B8 01 ...v............
260 02 80 7E 02 0E 75 04 B4-42 8B F4 8A 56 24 CD 13 ..~..u..B...V$..
270 61 61 72 0A 40 75 01 42-03 5E 0B 49 75 77 C3 03 (e-mail address removed).^.Iuw..
280 18 01 27 0D 0A 49 6E 76-61 6C 69 64 20 73 79 73 ..'..Invalid sys
290 74 65 6D 20 64 69 73 6B-FF 0D 0A 44 69 73 6B 20 tem disk...Disk
2A0 49 2F 4F 20 65 72 72 6F-72 FF 0D 0A 52 65 70 6C I/O error...Repl
2B0 61 63 65 20 74 68 65 20-64 69 73 6B 2C 20 61 6E ace the disk, an
2C0 64 20 74 68 65 6E 20 70-72 65 73 73 20 61 6E 79 d then press any
2D0 20 6B 65 79 0D 0A 00 00-49 4F 20 20 20 20 20 20 key....IO
2E0 53 59 53 4D 53 44 4F 53-20 20 20 53 59 53 7F 01 SYSMSDOS SYS..
2F0 00 41 BB 00 07 60 66 6A-00 E9 3B FF 00 00 55 AA .A...`fj..;...U.

-Q

- Franc Zabkar

 

[housetrained]

Thanks to all that tried to help me but the problem persists. I do
have the bios set at 1.44 ,I removed old floppy drive and installed
new one also new cable all to no avail. Any other ideas?

Had the same problem, it was only after re-installed Vista that the floppy
worked again.

 

[Terry]

Had the same problem, it was only after re-installed Vista that the floppy
worked again.

You still need a floppy with Vista? Boy that is a sad piece of
information.

 

[John Doe]

You still need a floppy with Vista? Boy that is a sad piece of
information.

You don't need a floppy with anything.

 

[Frank McCoy]

Thanks to all that tried to help me but the problem persists. I do
have the bios set at 1.44 ,I removed old floppy drive and installed
new one also new cable all to no avail. Any other ideas?

Like I said:
Did you try a brand-new floppy, not an old previously-used one?

 

[howie]

won't see the disk?
says the disk(all disks) is/are not formatted?
Led is not on?

No It asked if I want to format yes/no. No matter if I say yes it
comes back with disk cannot be formattedmIf I say no it kust does
nothing. The led is on,. I have tried new foamatted flopppys, old
ones ,blank ones and ones with data on them. Always the same result.

 

[howie]

Like I said:
Did you try a brand-new floppy, not an old previously-used one?
Yup and it diid not work.
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[meerkat]

No It asked if I want to format yes/no. No matter if I say yes it
comes back with disk cannot be formattedmIf I say no it kust does
nothing. The led is on,. I have tried new foamatted flopppys, old
ones ,blank ones and ones with data on them. Always the same result.

I`ve just come in here.
Delete the floppy drive in your Device Manager.
Restart the machine, and see if the system finds it again.

 

[JAD]

No It asked if I want to format yes/no. No matter if I say yes it
comes back with disk cannot be formattedmIf I say no it kust does
nothing. The led is on,. I have tried new foamatted flopppys, old
ones ,blank ones and ones with data on them. Always the same result.

Floppy drives have been going down hill for a while now. Maybe allot are
recirculated/refurbished. Data cable is the same?, seems to be the common denominator.

 

[Franc Zabkar]

No It asked if I want to format yes/no. No matter if I say yes it
comes back with disk cannot be formattedmIf I say no it kust does
nothing. The led is on,. I have tried new foamatted flopppys, old
ones ,blank ones and ones with data on them. Always the same result.

You need to eliminate Windows XP. If you have a bootable diskette, try
booting from it. Otherwise try reading the raw sectors as I showed you
elsewhere.

- Franc Zabkar