Floppy Drive won't read

[Kottenkandy41]

The floppy drive won't read in windows me .. ie. windows explorer or run but will read floppy drive when booting from a floppy ie. windows startup disk.

The cables and power is on correctly. Switched them around to make sure, and switched them back.

Anybody have any ideas?

 

[Grenage]

Is this all floppy disks or just 1?

 

[Kottenkandy41]

It is all disk. It hard locks the computer when trying to read from any floppy disk, and I have to power off and on the computer again.

 

[Vetinari78]

where is the drive situated on the floppy cable? or is there only the one connection?
also the easiest way to know if the cable is on backwards is when u boot, the power light will come on and stay on.

 

[Kottenkandy41]

The floppy drive is on the same cable as the old 51/4 floppy drive. The light comes on at boot goes off and does not come on again even when inserting a disk it wont come on and read any disk in windows but will in dos mode.

 

[crazy888s]

try disconnecting that old 5 1/4 drive. If still no go, try a new floppy cable and make sure you have the floppy drive connected to the connector after the twist in the cable (should be at the very end)

 

[Kottenkandy41]

Sorry I forgot to mention that I have tried 4 other floppy drives and they all do the same thing. I thought it might of been a bad floopy drive, but they all do it. Also, it is connected after the twist at the end. Thanks so much for all your help. I will try another cable, maybe that is the problem.

 

[Vetinari78]

has any one else used the computer, i suppose it's possible someone messed around in device manager and disabled the floppy drive.

 

[Heml0ck]

you can boot up from the floppy right? Then it isn't hardware. Have you got a virus ascanner configured to scan floppies on access?

 

[crazy888s]

if it was disabled in device manager, the drive wouldnt show up in My Computer or Windows Explorer.

 

[crazy888s]

also, Hemlock reminded me that there was also a virus awhile back that affected floppy drives. If you have virus software, update your definitions and rescan. If dont have virus software, here's a couple of free scans to check...

housecall

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

d/l mcafee,s stinger

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

http://www.pcpitstop.com/antivirus/default.asp