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floppy drive unable to read
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Original Message
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Name: mac
Date: June 7, 2003 at 04:53:00 Pacific
Subject: floppy drive unable to readOS: winmeCPU/Ram: p-111 |
Comment: my floppy drive is not reading any floppy..
everytime i insert a floppy it says that the floppy is not formatted or the disk is damaged and may need to be replaced.. anything wrong with my drive....???
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Response Number 1
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Name: EC
Date: June 7, 2003 at 07:46:36 Pacific
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Reply: likely is bad if it can't read any disk, they are cheap to replace the drive BUT also replace the cable
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Response Number 2
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Name: wawadave
Date: June 7, 2003 at 13:27:52 Pacific
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Reply: hello
there was allso a virus a while back that afected floppy drives . you may want to run a few of these scans. allso look in device manager see if any problems showing.
free trojin scan
http://www.trojanscan.com/trojanscan/scanner.htm
panda scan
http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/
housecall
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
d/l mcafee,s stinger
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
test my sheilds grc
https://nanoprobe.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
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Response Number 3
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Name: Simplychilled Mark
Date: June 8, 2003 at 02:54:49 Pacific
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Reply: A bit of logical troubleshooting will narrow the problem down: 1) Can you read these disks in another pc? 2) Does changing the floppy drive in your pc work? 3) Is the data in a format that WinME cannot see (NTFS, Mac, etc)?
Hope this helps,
Mark
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Response Number 5
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Name: Binsky
Date: July 21, 2003 at 05:32:50 Pacific
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Reply: Hi there, When someone finds a solution for this problem, I'd love to know! I've had the same problem on my "old" system...The floppies are just not being read, and can also not be used to enter DOS... I've already replaced the unit, and the cable, to no avail. Now I've just built and installed a new system, which has the same problem. The floppies run fine on my laptop, bootable floppies boot just fine. What could this be? Windows says all's ok (system->floppycontroller), BIOS settings are just fine...What is this? Robin
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