UPDATED:Floppy Drive Problems

[Ray06492]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I bought a new floppy, and a new cable. The floppy now works.

Take care,
Raymond

Here is my problem. Any floppy disk that I insert into the drive, I try to open it, and I get: Drive is not formatted, do you want to format it?

Any solution to this problem?

Thank you for your time.

Raymond

 

[rw120555]

I'd say that either (a) your floppies need to be formatted, or (b) your drive is going bad.

Try formatting a floppy and see what happens. If problems persist, check your cable connections. Floppy drives do sometimes go bad, but luckily they are not too expensive to replace.

 

[OZEE]

I recently had one do this -- If you can't get it to work after using a cleaner disk, the drive's probably shot. The first thing I was told to do was to delete it from the system resources and let windoze refind it. If that doesn't work, then the drive needs replaced. Unless it's in a floppy or in something with a propriatary bios like compaq, they're cheap enough and easy to replace.

Good luck

 

[SocrPlyr]

go buy a new one... they are what a whopping 15 bux max?
hehe j/k 🙂

 

[Schlocemus]

Buy a new one, but don't spend much more than $15 🙂

 

[HYD]

I've had this happen to me. Your drive is going bad, get a new one!

 

[Timothy]

Is the drive light on all the time? If yes, the ribbon cable is flipped!

Tim

 

[Ray06492]

Thanks everyone, for your suggestions.

Take care,
Raymond🙂