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Floppy Disk Drive or not?

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RISman

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Here's the scenario--

I put a Win9x boot disk into this machine with the intent of formating the hard drive and reinstalling windows. This machine will NOT read the floppy. (I tried multiple disks, and verified that they worked in my other machines) I even went as far as to replace the drive and still, the same thing. In windows, it tells me that the drive is not formatted, do I wish to format it now. I selected yes, formatted it, and the same message...The disk is not formatted do I wish to format.
I also verified that the settings were correct in the bios.

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!


 
I am running Win95B...I may try to d/c the hard drive tonight and see what that does, but I expect the same result...perhaps a bad floppy controller??? This is too odd.

It's a FIC board (socket 7) PA 2007? I think...
 
So, does the BIOS detect the drive? You could be right about the controller. It does happen. If you have some way to try the floppy drive itself on another system, that would tell you for sure if it's the drive or not that's the problem.
 
I haven't tried the drive in question in any other system, but I put a brand new in and it did the same thing as the old one...So it's pointing to the controller, the cable, or ??? I didn't look at it last night, but tonight I'll be back at it. Another thing I am considering is that the problem is being caused by a virus...although unlikely...the computer crashes everytime I do a virus scan on it...with McAfee AND Norton...what this would have to do with the floppy I have no idea.
 
Some BIOS's have an option to "Report No Floppy for Win 95". Basically this means the BIOS ignore floppy drives and lets Windows detect them itself. You could try fooling with this. Also make sure that you don't have some other type of floppy selected in the BIOS, like 5.25 or type 3 japanese...
 
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