Floppy drive not recognized

[JBT]

I just got a single device rounded floppy drive cable. Instead of a 24" dual device cable. which worked but was wasy to long and and all over the place. So now I can't get it even to boot up with the cable. and after when I shut down my machine Norton anti virus gives me an error and says I have a floppy disk in the drive. This ussually only happened before with the dual device cable plugged in the slave plugg. But with this cable it doesn't even show up in "MY Computer" Is there anyway of fixxing this cause I can't figure it out.

 

[AnAndAustin]

😉 I'd make sure the cable is firmly plugged in and that the red strip lines up with pin1 on the mobo and floppy drive. Then check the power lead is in properly, I'd suggest reseating all these leads as they are VERY tempremental and can easily miss a pin! Another thing to try is a DOS boot disk in the drive or see if the BIOS detects and can use it properly, just to see if it's some wierd Windows issue although that is very unlikely.

 

[BlakkIce]

you still using a floppy? if not disable it in the bios

 

[JBT]

Yes I still use a floppy why is that so bad? Do I use it that often no not really, but in rare cases yes. Would I see any performance increase from not using a floppy? I figure out what was wrong anyways. well sort of After looking at it for along time and plugging it in a few times it eventually worked must have been a bad connection. I guess i'm just dumb.

 

[AnAndAustin]

😉 Easily done, floppy drive leads and plugs are VERY lame and I often fail to get it right the first time I plug a new floppy drive in. In fact, if the power lead isn't quite in right the whole PC can fail to POST, and that can be very worrying LOL!

 

[psianime]

Try a different cable.
Test out the cable buy using a different floppy to test it out.

-psianime