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Problem with my floppy drive

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knight2255

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Had a problem where when I went to format a floppy disk in my floppy drive and error message popped up and said no disk in drive. So i figured either my drive is bad or my floppy disk....i replaced both and still have the same problem. I have checked all my connections/wires and everything is in snug. I am trying to flash my bios so my board will accept a faster athlon xp chip. I have windows xp pro with SP2.....any ideas on what could be wrong?
 
floppys are old news get a jump drive

my floppy stopped worked after i had it for 6 years never bought another one no real big reasont to unless i want to copy something to an old 386 comp.

maybe your floppy thing on the mobo is bad, does it act like its reading the floppy when you try to access it?
 
can you flash a bios with the jump drive? also, the floppy drive doesn't make any sound like its trying to access the floppy
 
I wondered the same - my floppy of 7 years finally ate it. Of course I started having mem probs too and cant run MemTest.

A jump drive can handle that type of thing? If so, SWEET!

-=M=-
 
Try going to a command prompt and formatting from there.
Start-->Run-->cmd "enter"
"format a:"

If that doesnt work maybe try a DOS boot disk and do the same.

If that doesnt work, try flipping the connector over on either the mb or floppy, that may be your problem, or switch if you're using a two device floppy cable.

If that doesnt work, go to a friends house and put the file on a disk :rolleyes:
 
Is your mobo old? I think newer kinds allow you to flash without having to make a bootable disk?

I can flash my bios while running windows, I have a Asus board and use software asus provides.

If you have a cd writer could attempt to make a boot disk out of that if mobo supports boot from cd.
 
Edit - re-read your post - you already replaced the drive....?? No go at all...?? Is the drive seen in BIOS?

Only thing left is the data cable. Worth trying another before you bag the drive......

You could also check the power lead with a VOM to make sure the wires all work. Rare, but I have seen dead rails a time or two due to bad crimps in the plug assemblies during manufacture.

Good Luck - B.B.S.
 
Servian said:
Is your mobo old? I think newer kinds allow you to flash without having to make a bootable disk?

I can flash my bios while running windows, I have a Asus board and use software asus provides.

If you have a cd writer could attempt to make a boot disk out of that if mobo supports boot from cd.
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my mobo is a 3 year old ECS board....it does support boot from cd, but can i flash my bios that way? if so, can you explain how, i'm not too sure how i could do it
 
BlindedByScience said:
Edit - re-read your post - you already replaced the drive....?? No go at all...?? Is the drive seen in BIOS?

Only thing left is the data cable. Worth trying another before you bag the drive......

You could also check the power lead with a VOM to make sure the wires all work. Rare, but I have seen dead rails a time or two due to bad crimps in the plug assemblies during manufacture.

Good Luck - B.B.S.
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yeah the bios sees the drive, and its a brand new drive, brand new floppy disks. i guess it could be a data cable but thats brand new too, the power light does come on on the floppy drive
 
knight2255 said:
yeah the bios sees the drive, and its a brand new drive, brand new floppy disks. i guess it could be a data cable but thats brand new too, the power light does come on on the floppy drive
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Does the power light stay on all the time or does it go away?
If it stays on all the time try flipping the connection around.
 
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