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Thread ID: 9101 2001-05-07 08:53:00 Floppy Drive only reading 720kb disks Guest (0) Press F1
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12277 2001-05-07 08:53:00 My floppy drive will only read and write to the smaller
720kb floppies. I replaced the
drive, checked the cable and
bios settings which are okay.
Keep getting Drive A not formatted warning but would not format disk when tried.
Any ideas??

Running Win 95 version b
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12278 2001-05-07 14:05:00 I have experienced a similar fault, except that the floppy would not detect at all. It appeared to be due to the BIOS not detecting the FDD properly. I cured it by resetting the BIOS using the clear CMOS jumper on the motherboard.

If this doesn't work, try reinstalling Windows to get around any rescource conflicts.
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12279 2001-05-08 03:39:00 How do I reset the BIOS using the clear CMOS jumper on the motherboard?
I've tried re-installing Windows 98 but still have the problem of not being able to read floppy disks.
Thanks.
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12280 2001-05-08 04:00:00 Make sure that in your BIOS settings you have the floppy drive set as 3 1/2 1.44MB drive (not the 720k option) Guest (0)
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