Strange Floppy Problem

[MJ99]

When inserting my SamsungMonitor installation diskette I receive the following error message:
"The disk in drive A: is not formatted" and asks if I want to format it now.

The diskette is formatted and works in my other three PC's and any other diskettes I have tried in the offending machine work also. All four machines have Win98se installed. I thought about the possibility of a strange motherbord issue but one of the other pc's is identical to it. Has anyone seen this problem before or have any suggestions.

tia,
mike

 

[BadThad]

Sounds to me like your floppy drive bit the dust. Time to spend $10 for a new one.

 

[MJ99]

hope not its a brand new drive.

 

[tbalon]

I would check the cable connections at the floppy and mobo and if that didn't work, try swaping one floppy drive and cable from one machine to the other.

 

[MJ99]

Replaced the drive and cable still no go on this diskette. I compared the BIOS setting against its sister pc and all looks good. I did notice one other little quirk. On the trouble pc if I try to boot from the diskette it will ignore the diskette and boot to Win98 on its sister (good) and a third pc when booting with the diskette in the A: drive I receive this error "NTLRD not found". I thought this was a WinNT file and all the pc's have the same win98se version.

tia,
mike

 

[HappyNic]

SamsungMonitor installation diskette?! 🙂

Both my friend and I get the same "The disk in drive A: is not formatted" me error message too. So don't worry about it, you don't really need it anyways.😉

 

[Richard98]

Just a thought, but do you have the floppy capacity set properly in the bios. I just installed what I thought was a 1.4mb drive, while it was actually 720k. Wouldn't work at all till I changed the bios.