FDD problem

[Ken Tucker]

After from 98 to XP muy stepfather's computer 's FDD no longer works.
Power is connected and cable is correctly oriented. There is the
yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager/FDD and when I uninstall
then reboot it the driver that reinstalls has the same problem and the
incomplete installation error message. That's the extent of my
knowledge - can anyone suggest what to do next, short of a clean
install.

Thanks

Ken

[Lester Stiefel]

Ken Tucker wrote:
> After from 98 to XP muy stepfather's computer 's FDD no longer works.
> Power is connected and cable is correctly oriented. There is the
> yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager/FDD and when I uninstall
> then reboot it the driver that reinstalls has the same problem and the
> incomplete installation error message. That's the extent of my
> knowledge - can anyone suggest what to do next, short of a clean
> install.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ken

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Hi ken,

Check out the Internet explore control panel and clean up the cache
and history. Clean the drive with disk cleanup - checking all options.
Defrag the drive.
If all else fails, try reloading/reinstalling from ground
zero, defragging after each major upgrade. Also a program that was on
the old system may be interfereing with the FDD driver install. Try
uninstalling all applications, then reinstall after XP install.
Lester Stiefel

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[Sharon F]

Ken Tucker wrote:
> After from 98 to XP muy stepfather's computer 's FDD no longer works.
> Power is connected and cable is correctly oriented. There is the
> yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager/FDD and when I uninstall
> then reboot it the driver that reinstalls has the same problem and the
> incomplete installation error message. That's the extent of my
> knowledge - can anyone suggest what to do next, short of a clean
> install.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ken

When you double click the FDD with the yellow highlight in Device Manager
what does it say? Also, it's possible that the drive will continue to show
up with a problem until the fdd controller driver is replaced. Try removing
the floppy disk controller and the drive from Device Manager before a
restart.

I have a few floppy drive stories I could share but the bottom line is that
sometimes floppy disk drives die and need to be replaced. Sometimes you have
to try more than one drive as the replacement will be bad right out of the
box. The quality of floppy drives (and floppy disks) in recent years has
greatly declined. They can be downright flakey to work with.

That reminds me, after you think that you have the drive working, test it to
be sure that it is reading and writing okay. Also test that it can boot from
a floppy disk. A win98 boot disk will do (if successful, just type exit and
restart the computer). You want to make sure the drive is capable of reading
that boot portion of a disk as well as the data portion.


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Sharon F
Microsoft MVP, Windows - Shell/User