Floppy Drive seems broke

Dempsey

My floppy drive doesnt seem to read the disks. Windows asks me to insert a disk but there is one already in. The disks are fine. The drive is being picked up in BIOS and by windows but is ignoring that the disk is inserted. Its only 13 months old too with little use.

What should I do?

BloodBath

Remove it.

Throw it in the bin.

Buy yourself a nice zip drive or usb memory stick.

Hate mother f**king floppys, Every other component of pc's have advanced at an amazing rate yet we are still using 3.5" floppys, gah.


BloodBath

elexes

well get a boot disk go into the bios and try and boot from the disk if u cant and ur bios was setup wright then spend about 14 euros on a new one .

its a pc yeh ??? not a laptop ?

Dempsey

Originally posted by BloodBath
Remove it.

Throw it in the bin.

Buy yourself a nice zip drive or usb memory stick.

Hate mother f**king floppys, Every other component of pc's have advanced at an amazing rate yet we are still using 3.5" floppys, gah.


BloodBath

Thanks for that useless information.

Its a PC, Elexes. It dont recognise a floppy on startup either.

joePC

Open the PC & check the cables floppy & power. If the light is always on then the floppy cable is the wrong way around..............If its not the cable then its fcuked, Its is the cables dho

Thanks joePC

mike65

I have exactly the same problem at the moment, I'm pretty sure the data cable is shot.

Mike.

Dempsey

I'll check the cable when I get home. Its a rounded ribbon cable from abit, didnt think it would damage easy. I'll examine that. Dont have another cable at the moment to use either, ill get one at the weekend.

DaithiSurfer

I've seen this happen with several pcs in the last couple of yeares.
Try a few older floppies in it.
I dont know why but the pcs i had thois problem with could read older floppies but new ones wouldnt work until theyt were formatted on that particular machine.
There's something funny about formatting too but i cant remember what it was.

unkel

Also my experience it's more likely the cable than the floppy. In my brand new '04 PC I'm using the floppy from a PC I bought in '95

mike65

Originally posted by unkel
Also my experience it's more likely the cable than the floppy. In my brand new '04 PC I'm using the floppy from a PC I bought in '95

I'm nearly as bad as you! My floppy was until I replaced it last week, the last bit of my first machine (1996).

Mike.

elexes

think ive still got one floppy ive been using since 95