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

jerome12345

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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?
 

LeeC

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Dec 28, 2003
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Also take the cable off, and look at the pins. You might have broke some installing cable
 

DieHardware

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

sharkeeper

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

Cheers!