Floppy-No ID Address Mark

[Guest]

I got a new comp about six months ago. When I first set it up the floppy drive worked fine, but when I tried to use it for the first time in several months I got an error code that said:
A:\ Not Availabl
No ID Address Mark was found on the floppy disk

I've tried several disks--including ones that I used before with no problem, and which work on other computers--so it's not that they're not formatted (the computer also says it can't finish formatting the disk when I tried to do that). I also uninstalled the driver and went into BIOS to make sure that the computer was set up properly. The computer recognizes the drive and the device manager says that everything is working properly.

Any ideas?

 

[JAX]

My personal experience was, I installed XP and had the same problem as you.
I tried every suggestion I could find, including changing floppy drives 3 or
4 times. Nothing helped. I have come to the conclusion that some XP disks
have faulty floppy drivers, as, some people have no problem with floppies
and others do. I have found information that this problem is recognized and
is supposed to be addressed in SP2.

I was able to resolve the problem on my machine by installing the 3-mode
driver that you can find from the following link. The article is rather
wordy and the instructions are difficult to follow but, it worked for me.
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]&rnum=1

HTH, JAX

I got a new comp about six months ago. When I first set it up the floppy

drive worked fine, but when I tried to use it for the first time in several
months I got an error code that said:

A:\ Not Available
No ID Address Mark was found on the floppy disk.

I've tried several disks--including ones that I used before with no

problem, and which work on other computers--so it's not that they're not
formatted (the computer also says it can't finish formatting the disk when I
tried to do that). I also uninstalled the driver and went into BIOS to make
sure that the computer was set up properly. The computer recognizes the
drive and the device manager says that everything is working properly.