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| Thread ID: 45698 | 2004-05-31 06:43:00 | Floppy disc drive not reading floppy discs | Chemical Ali (118) | Press F1 |
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| 240627 | 2004-05-31 20:23:00 | I have a somewhat similar problem. New floppies stated to be IBM formatted can not be recognised on my XP Home computer (said to be not formatted) and a reformat does not work. If I then use my Me computer I can reformat the disk which will then be recognised and able to be used on the XP. Strange, eh? |
rodb (1561) | ||
| 240628 | 2006-05-18 10:38:00 | With Windows XP Home SP2 I have used this work-around with success. Put floppy disc in drive. Restart computer. When asked to remove disk, do so, then tap spacebar and wait for Windows to load. For the remainder of that session all floppy discs will work. Use this procedure when making initial star-up each day. |
Bart (587) | ||
| 240629 | 2006-05-18 13:34:00 | Depending on your drive/cable/motherboard there is about 4 different ways of connecting the cable, but only one of them will work. Try swapping the ends, I have endless trouble with this because I use rounded cables and you can never tell which end is supposed to go to the motherboard and which to the FDD. Also, pay no mind to what windows tells you, if the controller on the motherboard is enabled, windows is none the wiser if there is a drive there at all! try it, if you unplug your drive completely windows will still show an "a" drive, it will only vanish if you disbale the controller in the BIOS. |
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