Floppy drive

[attilathehun1]

I replaced the floppy drive with a new floppy drive and now it's not
recognizing any floppy disks that I put into it. When I go into Device
Manager it says the device is working properly. But, when I insert a disc it
says: " Please insert a disk into drive A ", and the disk is already in the
drive. I've used new floppies and still the same result. The drive is not
recognizing any floppies I put into it. It will eject the floppy though. It
says that it's working properly in Device Manager, like I said before.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, attilathehun1

 

[John John]

I replaced the floppy drive with a new floppy drive and now it's not
recognizing any floppy disks that I put into it. When I go into Device
Manager it says the device is working properly. But, when I insert a disc it
says: " Please insert a disk into drive A ", and the disk is already in the
drive. I've used new floppies and still the same result. The drive is not
recognizing any floppies I put into it. It will eject the floppy though. It
says that it's working properly in Device Manager, like I said before.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Did you try different diskettes? Is the floppy drive light always on?
If it is you probably got the data cable plugged in the wrong way.

John

 

[attilathehun1]

yes, I tried different disks and the light doesn't come on. It's not plugged
in the wrong way. I've seen the light come on before, but it's not on now
when I have a diskette in the device. What does it mean if the light isn't
on?

 

[philo]

yes, I tried different disks and the light doesn't come on. It's not plugged
in the wrong way. I've seen the light come on before, but it's not on now
when I have a diskette in the device. What does it mean if the light isn't
on?
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The light should only be on during "seek".

Do you have the floppy set properly in the bios...
check that first

 

[Bob Harris]

I assume that you replaced the floppy drive, because it was not working.

However, it is possible that the drive was OK, and the problem is (1) power
cable, (2) signal cable, (3) floppy controller on the motherboard, (4) power
supply, at least the part that is related to the floppy drive.

If you are lucky, the problem is a loose connection to the floppy drive.

To test the drive, separate from the other options, try your new floppy
drive in another computer. If it works, then look into the other
possibilities.

Another thought is to test the floppy drive without XP. Get an
old-fashioned DOS boot disk (single floppy) and see whether the PC will boot
from it. Such disks can be made by every windows PC up through XP. (XP
actually makes an ME-type boot disk.) You might need to change the boot
order in the BIOS to floppy first.

Here are some links about floppy problems:

http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/fdd/failController-c.html

In case the floppy controller is dead, consider a USB-floppy.

 

[Xandros]

Further to what Bob Harris mentioned you can download this file
http://www.torontotechcenter.com/support_files/bootme.exe which creates a
self extracting image of a bootable Windows Me Startup disk. Of course you
need to do this on a computer with a known working floppy drive. Create the
floppy with it. Ensure it works by booting it on the system you created it
with then try booting your computer with it. You may need to set your system
BIOS so that it can boot off the floppy drive prior to booting the hard
drive. Doing this will at least ensure the floppy is connected properly.