[Not reading my floppy drive]

[Not reading my floppy drive] - Computers

Search Tech-Forums - link takes you to our Forum's search page.

Note: The following is only a text archive!

To view the actual forum discussion, please visit our website at http://www.tech-forums.net

Pages:1

Not reading my floppy drive
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)

Posted by: Jake

So I'm trying to reformat an old computer so I can sell it, and it's not reading the floppy (that I need for the boot disk). Somehow the letter must have been changed from A:\ to something else, since it seems fine in Device Manager. When I boot up, it doesn't check the floppy at all, although the BIOS is set to check it.

So I need to know how to go about finding the floppy so that I can access it.

A similar thing happened with the Cd rom- it went from D:\ to F:\, inexplicably.

Any ideas?

Posted by: nitestick

the floppy drive may have failed. device manager can still show the drive as being present if it detects a floppy drive controller. i say check the power and data cables for the floppy drive.

Posted by: Jake

Hmm....I found a small cable that led to the power supply and plugged it in to some open prongs at the back of the floppy, then the computer shut off automatically. When I booted it up again, it still doesn't read the floppy (although the little green light is on).

Posted by: brinks

If the light is always on that usually means that the cable is pluged in the wrong way.

Posted by: Jake

Aha. That would mean that the little cable I found and plugged in was the wrong one. But that's the only free one that I see that goes to the power supply. The floppy is supposed to have more than just the one (data) cable, right?

Posted by: Jake

Problem solved: I sold the **** thing without mentioning the floppy ;)