Floppy drive mixup 2

[stinkyluk]

I have a unique problem I have never encountered before. I work at a school and we get donated computers. This one is working fine running Win98 EXCEPT-in the BIOS it lists my floppies as A: 1.44 3.5 B: NONE- When it boots up it shows A: NONE and B: 1.44 3.5- In My Computer it show no B: and the A: is a 5.25. I have checked the strap-it is connected correctly and I have removed the drive from the Device Manager and it came back the same way. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Trisha

 

[edfair]

Check for drive swapping in the BIOS for starters. Should be disabled.
Then the drive should be on the end of the ribbon, past the cut and twist.

Suspicion that drive swapping is active, which causes the A:/B: mixup during boot.

There may be other problems with the device manager.

Ed Fair
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[mainegeek]

I would do what EdFair has mentioned first.
Also, some of the older floppy drives had jumpers on them as well. If this one has them then you would be better off not to mess with them. They have no pin assignment printed on them. At least the old ones that I ever saw didn't. The pc may have also had a tape drive or a 5 1/2 floppy drive in it before you got it. Try
using a standard floppy cable and/or try booting with a bootdisk and see what drive letter is being assigned in Dos.

 

[stinkyluk]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. The drive swapping was enabled-I never would have figured it out. Once again Tek-Tips saves my butt and makes me look like a genius in front of the Tech Committee ;-)

Trisha