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Weird floppy problem

Vlad335

Vlad335

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First off, I don't know which forum to post this in. I think I am experiencing a problem with Win XP but I just don't know.

I want to install a new Epox mobo but i am unable to get SATA drivers on a floppy. Windows says any floppy disc i use needs formating but then says "unable to format" everytime. I replaced my drive with another one and same thing happens. I even tried the Format A: in command prompt and get a "bad sector 0, disk unusable" error.

No floppy means no SATA drivers on a reformat. I know all the floppy disks I used as well as both drives could not possibly be bad. WTF!

Any ideas?
 
Bad floppy disk. Bottom line. "Bad Sector 0" means that the master boot record (track 0) on the floppy disk is bad and can't be written to. Throw it out and get a new disk.

One thing I just happened to think of, you're not trying to use a 720K disk right? XP won't format any disks below 1.44MB (two holes, one in each corner)
 
I bought a brand new box of floppies about a year ago all ten where crap giving same error.

went into storage to get some i had used 15 years ago and they worked fine.
 
I don't know...

New floppies, old floppies! I even put the floppy I used a couple weeks ago to update my bios and I get the same thing. No matter what disk goes in, same shit.

Both drives can in no way be bad.

This is driving me fuckin crazy! I want to change my mobo!
 
I will try to change the cable next. After that... I don't have clue.
 
Make sure the floppy drive cable is in the motherboard and in the floppy correctly. I had similar problem and noticed it wasn't plugged into the floppy correctly, that fixed my problem.
 
serbiaNem said:
Make sure the floppy drive cable is in the motherboard and in the floppy correctly. I had similar problem and noticed it wasn't plugged into the floppy correctly, that fixed my problem.
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I've had the same problem. It happened after I reconfigured my rig.
All the floppy's where not recognised, allthough windows did see the drive.
After checking the cables , I noticed that one end ,plugged in the drive ,was up-side-down.

But I've got another wierd problem :confused:

Once the floppy-drive has read a disk, I can take the disk out of the drive and
it still sees the data previously read.

Maybe (after some searching the forum )I'll post it and see if there are some reactions.


Grtz
 
That looks like a windows "tweak" that some people do. It delays updating the removable drives until u use them. I find it annoying...
 
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