Floppy Drive not working

[Efandin]

I just manage to get my new system I put up booting and having WinXP
Pro installed. However, on the first screen it gave me a message that
"Floppy disk(s) fail (40)". However, when I check property or trouble
shoot the floppy drive, it says "the device is working properly".
But when I insert a diskett, it cannot be read. The floppy drive was
from my old P2 system. What wrong? Thanks.

 

[Bee and Baloo]

PS2? Floppy drive is an IBM special? May not be a standard PC drive - I
would try another. If I recall correctly PS2 drives were 720 K also will
not read a HD disk. Is it set to 720 K in the bios?

HTH

Warren

 

[Jerry Greenberg]

Change the drive to one that is more modern, and conforms for the BIOS
in your mother board. It should work, if there is nothing defective.

Jerry Greenberg
http://www.zoom-one.com

 

[Quack]

I just manage to get my new system I put up booting and having WinXP

Pro installed. However, on the first screen it gave me a message that
"Floppy disk(s) fail (40)".

there can be 3 reasons for this;

- your floppy drive is misconfigured in the BIOS.

This is easy to fix, follow the on-screen menus and instructions.
(read the motherboard book if necesary).

- your floppy drive cable is plugged in the wrong way around.

I find that when upgrading old systems, some older floppy drives had
an reversed connector - although in modern machines it is standard to
face the RED side of the ribbon cable to the power side of the drive -
some of these 'standards' were not so standard a few years back.

When your system boots, or windows trys to access the drive, does the
floppy led light up ? If not this is most likely the problem.

0R is it always lit ? In this case, this is also most likely the
problem.

Try reversing the cable and see what happens.


- your floppy drive is old, incompatible or faulty.

get a new one

However, when I check property or trouble
shoot the floppy drive, it says "the device is working properly".

windows will always say that if the bios says you have one.

But when I insert a diskett, it cannot be read. The floppy drive was
from my old P2 system. What wrong? Thanks.

Again, when you 'insert' a disk, what happens on the floppy drive LED
(see above)

Alex.


BTW - everyone said "ps2" in response to the old system - but i would
have taken "P2 system" to mean his old "pentium 2" machine.