Summary: Anyone know if an old ps/2 machine will recognize a new floppy drive before I buy it. Or will I have to find a working one out of an old ps/2 pc to in...
Summary: AHH someone help! I know that the floppy drive fail (40) is supposed to be fixed by just pushing in the ribbon and stuff but I have tried everything I...
Summary: The drive light is on because your BIOS is doing a test to communicate with the floppy drive. You can probably de-select the floppy test in BIOS, but...
Summary: i have a 286 pc but after playing around,it doesnt detect my floppy drive anymore.it says:"not ready to read from drive A:"(or so) "abort(a)...".what ...
Summary: Hi, does anyone know if it is possible to boot a machine wihtout a floppy drive in the case the startup files (command.com; io.sys; msdos.sys) were er...
Summary: Enos, This is just a shot in the dark. Some of the older floppy drives have jumper settings on them. One of the jumpers is an end of the line resistor...
Summary: I need to setup my system for a dual boot with DOS 6.22 and XP Pro. I have disks for DOS but don't have a Floppy drive on my system. Is there a simpl...
Summary: how do i connect a laptop with a broken floppy drive i've got laplink5 on my laptop but i ain't have it on my main computer can anybody help me ps: t...
Summary: I have an old Packard Bell I'm trying to get in working order. The C:\ drive has been reformated... when the computer boots up, I get an error messag...
Summary: Name: N/A Date: May 05, 2001 at 22:19:26 Pacific Subject: Can I have 6 Floppy Disk Drives in DOS?? Comment: I've got DOS 5.0 and I'm reading my Use...
Summary: I got a robot with a bad 5-1/2' floppy drive with 350k disk capacity.The robot has a board designed to work only with this capacity. Since i only have...
Summary: i'm having trouble booting from/accessing my floppy drive (general failure reading drive a:) but it works just fine in windows 98se. what could be the...
Summary: when i type in a dos prompt d:\ it tells me invalid drive specification when i type in a a:\prompt the floppy drive light turns on then of then nothin...
Summary: Make sure power plug and ribbon cable are snug on the floppy drive fittings, and don't forget the other end of the ribbon cable has to be snug in...
Summary: I have need to setup a compter with two 3.5 floppy drives and two 5.25 floppy drives. Don't ask why because it is an insane, and she'll get what she ...
Summary: Have you checked the BIOS settings to make sure the "A:" drive is still listed as 5.25" 1.2mb FDD and "B:" drive is listed is a 3.5" 1.44mb FDD? Have ...
Summary: I've got DOS 5.0 and I'm reading my User Guide, in the Customizing you system, and it says I can add up to 4 floppy drives more than what my bios repo...
Summary: Can you not install 2 1.44mb floppy drives in one computer. Both drives I have tested & both have worked in separate computers. I installed both, set...
Summary: I have had problems with ny Compaq Laptop and are trying to format and reinstall the diagnostic files (Compaq specific) and OS system. Unfortunately I...
Summary: Hi, I can try to use any boot disk I can find and the computer will just read it for about 3sec. and sit there and not do anything. Is my floppy drive...
Summary: Hi everyone, I am running DOS 6.22 with WFWG 3.11 and I am having problems with the floppy drive where before it was working just fine. I can read and...
Summary: OK Check to make sure that the hard disk is set as a master device and is on the primary IDE channel (no 1). Set the cd-rom to slave, and place that...
Summary: When I try to start up this old computer, it reads Floppy disk(s) fail (co). I've tried another floppy drive and I've tried different ribbon cables, ...
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