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| Thread ID: 88543 | 2008-03-31 08:15:00 | Floppy Drive refuse to work | tansri (13563) | Press F1 |
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| 654582 | 2008-03-31 08:15:00 | As a newbie, I will much appreciated with some help. My floppy drive does not work.It will click when a disk is inserted with the green lights turns on. A message will pop up, "Insert disk".It will not read or format. I have replaced a new floppy drive unit and cable.The device manage verify that device is working fine and enable. I have check the CMOS setting and floppy drive is enable. I have tried removing it and reinstall under " Add and remove hardware" My computer runs on XP, 3 HDD ,2 Sata and 1 Pata 1 dvd witer 1http://pressf1.pcworld.co.nz/images/smilies/drool.gif :drool cdrom |
tansri (13563) | ||
| 654583 | 2008-03-31 08:19:00 | Is the light on all the time?? Even before you put a disk in? If it is, you've put the floppy cable the wrong way. Make sure the red/blue line on the cable is going to pin 1 on the floppy. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 654584 | 2008-03-31 08:40:00 | The floppy drive turn on for a short time however it will make noise when trying to format. It still says insert disk. Cheers |
tansri (13563) | ||
| 654585 | 2008-03-31 08:43:00 | BUT is the red or blue line on the cable connected to pin 1 on the floppy itself?? Thats probably why its not working, its not connected properly |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 654586 | 2008-03-31 08:46:00 | Yes , the cable is connected properly normally the red is next to power cable. Cheers |
tansri (13563) | ||
| 654587 | 2008-03-31 09:16:00 | Dont know then thats the only reason, a floppy wont work, its either connected the wrong way, or its faulty I would go back to the shop and get the shop to test it / replace it. Or go to the shop and let them install it. See if it works properly Does the light on it stay on (not the power LED, the other LED) continuously tho?? Even if theres no disk in it?? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 654588 | 2008-04-01 02:51:00 | Have you got the pins properly aligned? | PENTIUM (426) | ||
| 654589 | 2008-04-01 03:27:00 | And you've tried more than one disk? You may have a dodgy disk. Especially if you've been playing with magnets. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 654590 | 2008-04-01 04:21:00 | Or the disks themselves are knackered - not the drive. I've found floppies (disks) these days last 5 minutes, and frequently are dead straight out of the box. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 654591 | 2008-04-01 04:48:00 | It used to be possible to buy floppy drive cleaning disks which were used with a few drops of isopropyl alcohol, but I suspect such things would now be objects of curiosity. There was also an MS-DOS cleaner program that excercised the floppy drive head in conjunction with a cleaner disk and polished them, called 'Cleaner'. This can still be downloaded from Simtel mirror sites as cleaner2.zip www.mirrorservice.org It was not completely unknown for even brand new floppy drives to refuse to work until cleaned. This could possibly happen these days if the drive is seldom used, and if a film builds up on the head surface. The big problem is you need a working floppy drive to run a DOS boot disk from which has the cleaner program on it :) :) Edit: 'Cleaner' may run from Windows in a DOS window, I've never tried it that way. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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