Help, Floppy Drive not reading disks!

TroNiXx · 01-02-2003, 07:22 PM

I just bought a new floppy drive for this PC yesterday (the old one just stopped working) and I hooked it up correctly but it still cant read any disks! It always says that I need to insert a disk in drive A: ! Its not an emergency but Im sure some of you here are glad to have a working floppy drive at least once a year. Anyways, if anyone can point me in the direction this problem is coming from, I would appreciate some help.

KingTermite · 01-02-2003, 07:24 PM

Are you sure you hooked the cable up right? Side with the twisted side of cable plugged into the floppy side?

Are you sure the old one quit working due to fault of the floppy and not controller or something like that? Not likely, but a thought.

diceless · 01-02-2003, 10:35 PM

Thought the floppy drive on a computer I was working on was bad when the fault was a bad boot floppy.

Make sure you have the floppy setup in the bios correctly, Bios set to halt on all errors, red strip on pin one (usually next to the motor), the floppy drive is on the last connector on the cable and no messages on the post about a missing floppy drive. If you have a new floppy cable with just two connectors, the one near the twist should be connected to the floppy drive. If you have all four of those checked and still can't boot from the floopy, check the disk in another computer. If the disk is good, pull the floppy drive out and check it in another computer. That should give you some tools to figure out what is the is failing in your system.

And if you find out you have another bad floppy drive or a bad mother board just make a bootable CDR with nero from the floppy you are trying to boot from.

Diceless

Andrew266 · 01-02-2003, 10:36 PM

that was happening with my friends just go into the bios and check if its enabled cause his was disabled when he recived his computer dont know why just was lol

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TroNiXx Confuzzled ABXer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Casselberry, FL Posts: 1,989	Help, Floppy Drive not reading disks! I just bought a new floppy drive for this PC yesterday (the old one just stopped working) and I hooked it up correctly but it still cant read any disks! It always says that I need to insert a disk in drive A: ! Its not an emergency but Im sure some of you here are glad to have a working floppy drive at least once a year. Anyways, if anyone can point me in the direction this problem is coming from, I would appreciate some help. __________________ ASUS P5NE-SLI - INTEL C2D E6750 @ 3.6GHZ - 4GB CORSAIR XMS DDR2800 - EVGA 8800GTS - ENERMAX 600W PSU - VISTA ULTIMATE 32
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01-02-2003, 07:24 PM	#2
KingTermite The Shade of Lazarus Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: PM me to keep in contact Posts: 26,003	Are you sure you hooked the cable up right? Side with the twisted side of cable plugged into the floppy side? Are you sure the old one quit working due to fault of the floppy and not controller or something like that? Not likely, but a thought. __________________ Bye Bye ABXZone.....Rest In Peace.
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01-02-2003, 10:35 PM	#3
diceless Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 202	Thought the floppy drive on a computer I was working on was bad when the fault was a bad boot floppy. Make sure you have the floppy setup in the bios correctly, Bios set to halt on all errors, red strip on pin one (usually next to the motor), the floppy drive is on the last connector on the cable and no messages on the post about a missing floppy drive. If you have a new floppy cable with just two connectors, the one near the twist should be connected to the floppy drive. If you have all four of those checked and still can't boot from the floopy, check the disk in another computer. If the disk is good, pull the floppy drive out and check it in another computer. That should give you some tools to figure out what is the is failing in your system. And if you find out you have another bad floppy drive or a bad mother board just make a bootable CDR with nero from the floppy you are trying to boot from. Diceless Last edited by diceless : 01-02-2003 at 10:45 PM.
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01-02-2003, 10:36 PM	#4
Andrew266 AB Expert (Not English) Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Medford,NY Posts: 546	that was happening with my friends just go into the bios and check if its enabled cause his was disabled when he recived his computer dont know why just was lol
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