Floppy Drive

[pirred908]

I have a SATA HDD and I use a floppy for the drivers when I install XP. I'm trying to reformat and it's not recognizing my floppy during the windows installation. I press "enter" to load the drivers from the floppy, but it says I don't have a floppy inserted. Since I already have windows installed (I was trying to re-format) I tried opening up another floppy in "My Computer". It worked fine and I was able to open a word document from a floppy I previously had. When I try to open the SATA driver floppy in "My Computer" though, my "My Computer" stops responding and I have to CTRL+ALT+DEL to end task. When I refer to "My Computer" I mean the icon that on most peoples desktop, not my actual computer.

Any ideas?

Could my SATA Floppy just be fried?

 

[pirred908]

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[pirred908]

Originally posted by: pirred908
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[mechBgon]

Sounds like that particular diskette is teh corrupted Use a different one and see if that works.

 

[pirred908]

I downloaded the drivers for sata from abit's website. The setup was than able to detect the floppy, but than it said I didn't have a hdd installed? Could someone direct me to the proper floppy files I need. I have a sata hdd and the abit an7 mobo.

 

[mechBgon]

Sure you got the right drivers? I mean, if the system's been booting from the drive...

 

[pirred908]

Theres only one file you can download on there site. Its here Text.

I downloaded the "floppy" one. Is that not what I need?

 

[pirred908]

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[billyjak]

Here download this one Here and follow directions

 

[pirred908]

That exactly whart I did, but I downloaded the drivers for the AN7 instead of the NF7-s. (I have the AN7) It detected the floppy, but I don't think it had the right files on it, so it still didn't detect my HDD.

 

[overclock]

Go into the BIOS and make sure the floppy is enabled. You have to go into the BIOS screen where you set the date, etc and go down to the floppy and hit enter. That should bring up a box where you can choose the type of floppy that is attached. This sounds dumb but a floppy on a computer wasn?t working one time and this was why.

 

[cy7878]

did you plug the cable in right? commonly overlooked mistake.

 

[pirred908]

Originally posted by: overclock
Go into the BIOS and make sure the floppy is enabled. You have to go into the BIOS screen where you set the date, etc and go down to the floppy and hit enter. That should bring up a box where you can choose the type of floppy that is attached. This sounds dumb but a floppy on a computer wasn?t working one time and this was why.

The floppy is definitly enabled. Like I said, it detected the floppy, but it didn't detect the HDD the second time. The first time it didn't detect the floppy. So I figured the floppy was bad and made a new one useing the drivers on ABIT's site under my mobo (AN7). I think that its not giveing me the files I need. Could you direct me to the EXACT floppy files I need for the ABIT AN7.

 

[billyjak]

Here are some directions Here they are in a different language but the pictures show you what to do.
There is also a link for the drivers.

 

[pirred908]

Sweet, thank you.