floppy light stays on, is recognized by xp, cant read floppies

jerome12345 · Jun 17, 2004

just put system together
it works, but the floppy light stays on
windows xp recognizes it as a disk drive
but it wont read floppies

whats wrong?

Budman · Jun 17, 2004

cable is on backwards,flip the cable at the floppy end.

Sheriff · Jun 17, 2004

The cables reversed.

LeeC · Jun 17, 2004

Also take the cable off, and look at the pins. You might have broke some installing cable

DieHardware · Jun 17, 2004

You want the cable with the twisted end connected to the FDD and red stripe on pin one at both ends of the cable.

Abhi · Jun 18, 2004

Originally posted by: Budman
cable is on backwards,flip the cable at the floppy end.

sharkeeper · Jun 18, 2004

Also, count on any disk you put in there while it was running like this to be totally trashed!

Cheers!