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Why Doesn't Floppy Drive Work?
My floppy drive can read disks just fine but it always shows a failure
whenever I attempt to write to a floppy disk. I have swapped drives (using one that I know works on my other computer) but I get the same result. Does this indicate a failure of the motherboard/onboard controller? What are the other possibilities? -- Thanks in advance for any help. |
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HKEK wrote in message m... My floppy drive can read disks just fine but it always shows a failure whenever I attempt to write to a floppy disk. I have swapped drives (using one that I know works on my other computer) but I get the same result. Does this indicate a failure of the motherboard/onboard controller? Very likely. What are the other possibilities? The ribbon cable. |
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if you can format in dos but not Win 2K/XP you ran into a well known bug.
"HKEK" wrote in message m... | My floppy drive can read disks just fine but it always shows a failure | whenever I attempt to write to a floppy disk. I have swapped drives | (using one that I know works on my other computer) but I get the same | result. Does this indicate a failure of the motherboard/onboard | controller? What are the other possibilities? -- Thanks in advance for | any help. |
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Previously HKEK wrote:
I have had the ribbon cable in/out several times (though I may not have swapped it out with a known good cable). I am running Windows 98SE. Short of swabbing motherboards, maybe I can add a separate controller. If the board has an ISA slot and the on-board floppy controller can be disabled, then you can do this. Otherwise you cannot. Arno "Eric Gisin" wrote in message ... if you can format in dos but not Win 2K/XP you ran into a well known bug. "HKEK" wrote in message m... | My floppy drive can read disks just fine but it always shows a failure | whenever I attempt to write to a floppy disk. I have swapped drives | (using one that I know works on my other computer) but I get the same | result. Does this indicate a failure of the motherboard/onboard | controller? What are the other possibilities? -- Thanks in advance for | any help. -- For email address: lastname AT tik DOT ee DOT ethz DOT ch GnuPG: ID:1E25338F FP:0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" - Tacitus |
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