why wont my dam$ computer read my floppy drive?

[eshtog]

it just keeps clicking and trying to read but it wont open wtf?

I have a epox 8k7a

 

[John]

reseat cable
try diff cable
try diff floppies
try diff floppy drive
kick computer

 

[eshtog]

im starting to think its my mb. this is like the 4 floppy now that I have replaced

 

[John]

You might consider a new powersupply instead.

 

[eshtog]

ok finally it told me to format my disk I tried but it said the disk cannot be formatted wtf?

 

[John]

did you try the steps above?

 

[Don66]

Do you have XP installed?
Seems to have that kind of problem with floppy's

 

[eshtog]

yes I am using WIndows xp also I dont have any other floppy drives

 

[evilOlive]

I've had a similar problem, this might be the solution. The floppies that you are replacing with, are they all old ones or generally new? With XP it seems that it can't use old floppy drives (learned this from experience), try buying a new floppy from compUSA, bestbuy, etc. If it doesn't work then just return it but I'm pretty sure that's the problem.

BTW: this is my first post, what's up everyone.

 

[Don66]

I've changed my floppy twice..Good thing I don't use it too often.
will it work with a boot disk? If so, it's probably not the floppy, but XP..

 

[Zlash]

Most floppy problems are with cables or the psu. If it's not a bad cable(cable setup) or psu, get a new floppy =).

 

[x86]

I have had this problem as well, and the solution is pretty interesting. Even modern floppy drives today don't have the guide rail for the IDE cable so that it goes in the right way. So you may want to flip the cable around.

-x86

 

[jcmkk]

I have this same problem with my FIC AD11 motherboard. Maybe it is a AMD761 problem. It has worked before, but it is very tempermental. Some times it will write fine, and other times it doesn't. I've tried many floppies and floppy cables as well. I don't really care though. If I really need to write something to a floppy, I just use another system.

 

[evilOlive]

No, I use AMD761 Biostar M7MIA and floppy works fine.

 

[Mavrick007]

Try what Don66 said, run a boot disk before it boots up to Windows and if that works then it will probably have something to do with WinXP. Try a different cable and flip it over too.

 

[eshtog]

the stupid thin is it worked fine for like the first couple weeks

ill try to see if I can boot of it