XP Pro and floppy drive

[PlanetPhred]

Whenever I put a floppy in my drive it says there isn't one in there. Tried deleting from device manager and rebooting with no luck. Same problem. Help.

[mobiux]

Are you sure the drive is good?

I've had more floppy drives fail on my than anything else.
Well maybe 3rd in line behind modems and cdrom drives

[MontyAC]

You check the cable? Cable could be reversed.

[PlanetPhred]

Cables are good. Floppy works in my 98SE rig.

[mabegman]

Can you see if your BIOS is detecting it in the machine you are having problems with? I don't know if you can manually force an auto detect on a floppy in your BIOS. If it wasn't seen the first time you booted for whatever reason it may not look for it anymore. I've seen "Boot Up Floppy Seek" options before. Usually set to disable to speed up boot process. See if you can get your BIOS to see it.

[PlanetPhred]

It is detected. It's in the device manager as working properly. Like I said before, I deleted it from the system. And when XP Pro rebooted it was detected and drivers where installed. It also shows up in My Computer for Drive A. It just won't recongnize any floppies. It keeps telling me to please insert a disk in drve A.

[darktiger]

I would say check your cables, maybe upside down.

[PlanetPhred]

Cables are good...

[bealzz]

thats shitty windows xp for you. that problem is actually alot more common then you think. at the university im at people ask me about it all the time. some disks dont work, some do. try a bunch of disks, eventually it will work. if you goto cmd.exe and type format A: it will probably give you something saying device in use.

its a feature, not a bug right?!