Floppy Disk Drive "Not Working" :(


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Hi There.

Well last week i had to get my pc fixed so i took it into my local computer shop. I had to get a new floppy disk drive put in because my other one got fryed. So the nice tech dude puts in a new one for me. I come home and try it out cause i wanted to put windows 3.1 on some floppys and put it on my old 386 heh;). So i put one of the High Dentisty Disks in and everything seemed to running ok. Then i clicked on the little a: icon in my computer in windows xp and it said "Would you like to format this disk" either that or it said it needed to be formatted. So i went ahead and did that, but when i tryed to put a file on the floppy it keeps saying the same thing! i even put other disks in and same **** it keeps saying same thing:( so i don't know if it's the floppy drive i got installed or the disks. I uninstalled the device then reinstalled it. I even tried rolling back the drivers nothing works. Hope maybe someone can help me.

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never ran into that problem, i constantly am told that there is no disk in the drive, yet there is and the lite never blinks to tell me that it checked, so my computer is checking a non-existant floppy drive, go figure... good luck to ya

TS

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Originally posted by JHAres

Check if the settings (in the BIOS) for the drive format is right: 1.44 or 1.2 MB...;)

Newer Bios default to 1.44MB.. 1.2MB is virtually non-existent.

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Originally posted by BxBoy

Newer Bios default to 1.44MB.. 1.2MB is virtually non-existent.

Defaults means nothing... ;)

I've seen more BIOS'es you can imagine... :p

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