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Floppy drive problem solved! I can't believe I didn't check this earlier. I'm using a floppy bezel with this drive to give my aluminum case a clean look. I installed the floppy from the back of the drive bay without a floppy disk inserted into the drive and flush with the bezel. Now here is...

Micker377- Cable and drive is good to go on another system. I've tried everything I can think of (see posts above) except a new drive.

I thought I would give ya'll an update on this thread. I RMA the board, recieved a new one with the same simptoms as the previous board. The only thing I have not tried is trying a different brand of floppy drive. Not for sure if this is a possible problem or not. Any suggestions on a...

I'll try a longer cable if it's a no go I'll just replace the board. Thank you for taking the time to help me with this.

Yep the drive does seek on post in my working system. I get the zip zip as you described. Does this tell us I have a bad chip on the Mobo?

Boot order is set to floppy drive. When I disconnected all the optical and hdd's the bios defalted to this as there was no other boot options. The bios on this board seems to be smarter than bios I'm familiar with. I checked before letting it boot up. The drive does make a click noise like...

No that's not a stupid question. I thought the same thing myself, possible corrupted boot disk. Checked the boot disk on my working system it boots just fine. Just to be sure I reformated the disk and confirmed a successful boot into dos on my working system before trying it in the new rig...

The cable from motherboard to A drive works fine in my other system so I would say it works fine. Haven't actually tried a different cable though. The cable has only one connector and there is a twist at the drive end. Pin 1 is aligned properly on both mobo and drive. The only setting I have...

I'm working on a new system I just put together. I've yet to get the floppy drive to read a diskette for driver and bios update. With the floppy set to first boot device in bios and a boot disk in the drive I reboot. Floppy light comes on then back off after post. I get a black screen with a...

Here's an update. After reading another post about booting to multi OSes I find out this bit of information: Ntldr from Windows XP is compatable with Windows 2000 but after installing SP1, it is not compatable with Windows 2000. I just copied the XP ntldr and ntdetect.com files from XP prior...

I was thinking the same thing Syar. After reading through the partition magic user guide. I find this bit of information on page 37. Windows 2000 has a Boot Code Boundary of 8GB**. The partition I have set up is 10GB. **Having an LBA-compatible (Logical Block Addressing)MBR will make the...

Advanced partition hiding hides OS partitions as to prevent file corruption. I tried booting with partition hiding on and off. No go either way.

I just did a fresh install to my 2k partition with the disk set to master. And it boots just fine. Connect it as primary slave and it wont boot even with the master boot.ini pointing to multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Mircrosoft Windows 2000 Professional"/fastdetect. Kinda...

After coping ntldr and ntdetect.com and creating the boot.ini file above, I used recover console to fixboot. Boot magic does not identify that partition as an operating system. I forced boot magic to make it bootable. After selecting Windows 2000 pro the following line is displayed: Preparing...

Syar, Yes, I follow you exactly. My configuration is setup mostly like you explained, with one exception. I have a Win2000 Pro partition on Disk 2 partition 1. If my memory serves me right an operating system cannot be booted from disk 2 without having some system files on the first...

Thanks for replying wolluf. I guess I was not clear about the Windows XP install. XP was installed independent from Win98 and Win2000 Pro, if the partition is set to active it will boot directly to XP without any bootloader. Lets forget about XP as it is not neccessary to complete my boot.ini...

I have two harddrives with a Tripple boot configuration. Here is the partition setup. Disk 1- Partition 1=Win98SE Partition 2=Win XP Home Partition 3=My Music Partition 4=My Pictures Disk 2- Partition 1=Win 2000 Pro Partition 2=Storage After formatting a...