Floppy Drive not working!

[Bruizer]

I need a little help! My floppy drive, whenever i put a disk in, wont work! The power light for its on and its plugged up! I don't get it. I got it connected to my MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and the computer says the device is working properly, but no go! Help.

 

[Taz480]

Did you just recently install it/hook it up? Are you sure the IDE cable is on the right way? Try removing the IDE cable, turn it 180 deg. and plug it back in. If it is plugged in wrong, Windows will still see it sometimes and the light will stay on when a disk is in it but won't read/write. If not, then it may just be dead. Do you have another one to try?

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: Bruizer
I need a little help! My floppy drive, whenever i put a disk in, wont work! The power light for its on and its plugged up! I don't get it. I got it connected to my MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and the computer says the device is working properly, but no go! Help.

Power light is on? Thats the access light, if it's always on, it means the cable is backwards..

 

[Taz480]

Yup!

 

[Bruizer]

Thanks! Yall were rights! Flipped the cable over and 100%! Once again thanks!

 

[Taz480]

Thank you for posting back to let us know!

 

[jackschmittusa]

Taz480

No IDE cables on a floppy drive lol.

 

[Taz480]

Heh, well, I didn't see the need in helping this person to distinguish between the 40 pin IDE cables normally used for HDD and optical drives and the 34 pin connector used to connect the floppy or some of the other characteristics such as the twist in some floppy cables just to let this person know that the cable plug on the back of his floppy drive was put on backwards and was causing the inoperation of his floppy drive even though the more understandable term known by most mid level users would be IDE but just to satisfy your appearant anal retentive need for correctness I will try to be more specific and technical in the future. Cool?? Pfffffffft! <shakes head>
LOL, jus teasin!