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LicketySplit · Tue Mar 18, 2003 8:45 am

Just did a reinstall of xppro and the darned thing wont recoginze floppy drive? Anyone else have this prob? Only thing i can think of is bad install...any suggestions before i reload? Thanx

pattouk2001 · Tue Mar 18, 2003 8:53 am

Hi. What do you mean it won't recognise the floppy drive, does the Icon within My Computer not appear altogether, or does it, but it doesn't allow you to access the floppy drive?

LicketySplit · Tue Mar 18, 2003 8:57 am

No....upon post it will not recognize the floppy, have to hit f1 to continue..its there in the bios, drive lite is on...wierd..my computer icon is present...just cant access the drive??

pattouk2001 · Tue Mar 18, 2003 8:59 am

....You mean the Drive light stays on perminently?

LicketySplit · Tue Mar 18, 2003 9:05 am

No...just flashes intermittently while boot is in progress...then normal....

LicketySplit · Tue Mar 18, 2003 9:09 am

Put in a new drive to see if that was the prob....SSDD...hmmmm??

pattouk2001 · Tue Mar 18, 2003 9:13 am

Hi. Ensure that the floppy drive is enabled in the BIOS obviously (you say you've tried this though), which is usually found under Standard Settings, assuming you have the Award BIOS. As you say though, do try swapping the floppy, as it might simply be that the floppy drive has past it's best.

LicketySplit · Tue Mar 18, 2003 9:18 am

well...new drive didnt help...guess ill reload....what a pisser! :lol:

etilena · Tue Mar 18, 2003 9:24 am

Your floppy cable maybe? Haven't installed any OS (Win98 to XP to Linux) that didn't detect the floppy.

LicketySplit · Tue Mar 18, 2003 9:31 am

Well....i can try that i suppose...worked fine before i reformatted and reinstalled...if it works etilena i will forever be in ur debt..he he :lol:

Tue Mar 18, 2003 12:44 pm

Did you make sure that the cable was not on backwards? If you have it backwards one way, the light stays on. If you have it backwards the other way, the light comes on like you said, but it will not be able to find the drive. This is why I hate non keyed floppy cables, had to flip one around several times to get it in properly so it worked.

LicketySplit · Tue Mar 18, 2003 12:47 pm

nope....it is a key'd one...worked before...damn strange...anyway...gonna dump it, and try again...new cable had same results...zippo

Tue Mar 18, 2003 12:50 pm

Did you check and see if the floppy controller was active in the device manager?

LicketySplit · Tue Mar 18, 2003 12:55 pm

yup...yup..and yup....must be another "quirk" i have developed with xp eh? Altho it is a corporate copy....that said, dont have ta worry about the activations ****. :lol:

Tue Mar 18, 2003 1:21 pm

Well, you could always go back to ME, maybe that will solve your problems..........JK

dolemitecomputers · Tue Mar 18, 2003 1:30 pm

The F1 message from the BIOS will have nothing to do with XP so I don't think reinstalling it will help. If the light stays on or flashes then it might be the cable. Try to use a boot disk if you can to see if it can read a disk outside of windows.

pattouk2001 · Tue Mar 18, 2003 4:08 pm

Hi again. dolemitecomputers is right in a way. Windows has full read and write access to the BIOS, and if the BIOS is not detecting the floppy properly due to perhaps a faulty cable, floppy drive, or quite possibly motherboard, or even a BIOS querk......then Windows will read this straight from the BIOS and report the floppy drive as not accessible or not present at all. I think there's more than what meets the eye to this problem.

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