my a drive does not work....help please

[Blizzak]

i am running windows 2000 and my floppy doesnt read any disk, when i re boot the computer, no error comes up saying to take out disk. I can see the A drive in My Computer. I put in the disk and it says error of: insert disk. I dont get what's going wrong i have asus motherboard, amb 800, 256ram,

 

[sygyzy]

Flip the cable.

 

[gnognugs]

The data cable.

 

[stso]

cable
or the floppy drive is dead ......

 

[Ronstang]

My floppy is doing the exact same thing in WinME and my cable is installed correctly and the drive is new. I have even tried other drives and same thing. I know the drives work because I have tried them in other systems. My machine usually returns a "disk in drive A is not formatted" and I know the disk has data on it. Sometimes when I reboot the floppy will work for a short time and then go crazy.

 

[RockEater]

without even opening the case, it the floppy activity light comes on when you power on and stays on, that often means the cable is flipped

otherwise cable is loose, or the drive croaked

 

[bacillus]

is the A drive set in bios for read/write?

 

[jamarno]

Can you boot to floppy? If so, the problem is Windows, and I don't know what to do.

If the drive light goes on and off but the drive still can't read disks, it's a sign that the drive could be plugged into the wrong connector on the cable - it has to go to the connector immediately the first twist in the cable.

 

[Peabody]

Try replaciig the floppy cable!

 

[emjem]

Sounds like the floppy drive is not properly identified in the bios.

Boot into the bios and see if the floppy drive is ID'ed as 3.5" @1.44

 

[Blizzak]

thanks guys i got it to work.. i don't know what was wrong with it i tried flipping the cable and that didnt' work either so i put it back the way i had it.. and it worked.. but the wierd thing is, is that the cable doesn't seem to fit on all the way .. but who cares.. it works thanks again guys