'A' Drive will not read any floppy

[jasemckee]

Hello all,

My 'A' drive will not read any disk that I put into it.

I keep getting the message that the disk is not formatted and would I like to format it now.

The disks have been formatted and I have been using them for some time.

I even went out and bought a new 'A' drive but the problem is still happening.

I have checked all my internal connections and everthing seems to be connected okay.

Does anyone know why this has started happening and more importantly how do I correct this problem, for the sake of the data on my disks.

Thanks in advance.

Jase.

 

[JLSigman]

Have you changed out the cable that connects the A drive to the computer? Jennifer Sigman
1/2 of the IT staff (does that make me assistant manager?)

 

[Spirit]

Have you got a spare floppy drive? Ifso try that.

If you try to boot from floppy how far does it get? Does it register that there's a floppy drive available / does it seek the disk / does it load the disk? Depending what stage it fails depends on possible solutions.

Try unplugging it boot you should be told there is no Floppy drive, switch off plug it back in. Do you still get told there's no floppy?

If the boot disk works try changing the windows drivers. If not try different connectors, power leads etc.

Iain

 

[mainegeek]

Try going to device manager and removing the floppy
drive and floppy controller.Then restart the computer.It will redetect and reinstall it.

 

[Crustyoldbloke]

Just to be on the safe side, is there another PC available for you to check your floppies on; Im thinking magnetic fields here and it happened recently to me. The other thing that happened to me was a friend giving me a floppy that he called "loaded" but my machine would not read, in fact it was blank according to my PC, he then told me where he got the floppy from and I knew that the firm he referred to used MACS.
Regards
Phil
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.

 

[Grenage]

Hey mate,

Double check the cable is plugged in the right way on the Motheroard and the floppy. Also any funny software that you might have installed. I once has this really wierd error with some drivers for an exernal CDROM on a few PC's. It absolutely refused to see anything in the floppy drive if the drivers loaded on bootup.

 

[Wirdo]

Do the disk read on another machine. If so it could be a floppy problem, but if not your floppies just went bad. It happens over time.

 

[Bobg1]

Check your bios settings for this drive.
May be configured wrong.