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Floppy Drive Problem
Name: marsdinho Date: May 25, 2005 at 16:09:39 Pacific OS: WinXP Home (SP2) CPU/Ram: 2Ghz, 512Mb
Comment:
Hi Guys,
Im having problems with my floppy drive. The light is always on and when I put a disk in, it says "please insert a disk into drive a".
I have checked my cables and they can only go in one way. I have bought a round floppy cable and on each end there is a raised bit which means they only fit on one way up. I have swapped the cable around and still no luck.
Every diagnostic says that everything is fine, all reports come back with no problems. But nothing works!!!
Name: OtheHill Date: May 25, 2005 at 17:05:57 Pacific
Reply:
The cables CAN be turned end for end and will be wrong. There should be an idendifiable #1 wire on each end. That #1 wire (usually red) must correspond with the #1 pin on the connector. If the cable will not plug in with the #1 to #1 then turn the cable 180 degrees and it should work. The end to the floppy drive can be misleading.
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Response Number 2
Name: Rich Mentzel Date: May 25, 2005 at 17:37:18 Pacific
Reply:
Light on all the time means the cable is installed upside down. The tab on the cable should be facing down...
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Response Number 3
Name: Michelle67 Date: May 25, 2005 at 19:24:25 Pacific
Reply:
I just went through something very similiar this past weekend. My floppy drive was working and then it wasn't. I tried changing the cables, turning them both ways and still wasn't getting anywhere's. It turned out that somehow it was not showing in the BIOS anymore. Once I changed it back to show the floppy drive and restarted everything has been fine since.
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