Boot Floppy problem

[JeffreyLebowski]

I've got a machine that has had two different floppy drives, a new motherboard, floppy cables, and a powersupply and I'm still can't access the floppy drive.

When I try to boot to the floppy drive I get a I/O error.

I know the disk is good because another machine can read it, and I've tried several different disks.

The machine will boot to windows and run fine, I just can't access the floppy drive.

Yes the floppy cable is on the correct way. The light doesn't stay on all the time.

Any suggestions?

 

[Kazi]

umm 2 dif machines you say? may sound stupid but are you sure they are same OS? (LOL told ya) but umm, anypins bent or damaged in anyway? umm hmm.. is the floppy drive new or old..umm anyone else?

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

No bent pins.
no creases in the cables. The drive will make the click like it's starting to read then give the error.

 

[Kazi]

is it new?

 

[RaWrulez]

have you tried the drive and cable in another system?

 

[bjc112]

thats a good question...

i had to ship my burner out... when i re connected with the same IDE cable.. it worked for a couple dayz... and then the cable died out!

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

It's a new drive, I havent tried it in another comp yet.

 

[johnhacker]

2 floppy drives? maybe take one out, my 2 cents...

 

[Midnight Rambler]

It's not that unusual for a floppy created/written to on one drive, to not be able to be read on another floppy drive. Head alignment, etc. could throw stuff off.

My suggestion: Use a fresh/new floppy disk in your drive. If you want a boot disk, insert your Windoz CD and run the utility program on there named FAT32EBD.EXE, it will create a good one for you.

 

[bacillus]

is your floppy set up using the correct floppy configuration data in bios?