floppy drivers not working

[Andrew Tanner]

ello evrybody
ive got a huge problem with my floppy drive
the floppy drive that has the problem originally came with
the pc, which is running windows98, i think i accidently
deleted the one of ther drivers for my floppy drive and as
a result my floppy drive wont work how i wnt it 2, it
seems to want to use 5.25" floppies not the standard 3.5"
ones which is pretty odd, when i looked at the driver
details for it, i noticed to drivers, both in the system
of windows...now when i went in to explorer i looked at
the both and one of them is fine, it has the proper icon
nxt 2 it, the 2 cogs, but the other one of
namer 'hsflop.pdr' shows the windows logo ipon the icon
insttead of the cogs, to my own knowldge i believe this to
be just a corrput file, and i have tried reinstalling my
OS on it and that didnt solve anything at all, i do now
want to take the floppy drive out as it is a real pain to
even unscrew, so i was wondering if any1 can help me out
with this problem, also if u cud take the time to help me
out, please reply via email as it is much easier for me to
make direct contact with you, any help appreciated

Andrew

[Jim Macklin]

The problem isn't the drive, but the drivers for the
motherboard or a bad cable.

Are you still running W98, this is a W XP group.

I suggest you check with a W 98 group. Windows XP has no
support for anything except 1.44 MB floppy drives.

You may need to reinstall your OS, flash your BIOS and as a
last resort, replace the cable. If that doesn't work, then
the drive should be replaced.


"Andrew Tanner" > wrote in message
...
| ello evrybody
| ive got a huge problem with my floppy drive
| the floppy drive that has the problem originally came with
| the pc, which is running windows98, i think i accidently
| deleted the one of ther drivers for my floppy drive and as
| a result my floppy drive wont work how i wnt it 2, it
| seems to want to use 5.25" floppies not the standard 3.5"
| ones which is pretty odd, when i looked at the driver
| details for it, i noticed to drivers, both in the system
| of windows...now when i went in to explorer i looked at
| the both and one of them is fine, it has the proper icon
| nxt 2 it, the 2 cogs, but the other one of
| namer 'hsflop.pdr' shows the windows logo ipon the icon
| insttead of the cogs, to my own knowldge i believe this to
| be just a corrput file, and i have tried reinstalling my
| OS on it and that didnt solve anything at all, i do now
| want to take the floppy drive out as it is a real pain to
| even unscrew, so i was wondering if any1 can help me out
| with this problem, also if u cud take the time to help me
| out, please reply via email as it is much easier for me to
| make direct contact with you, any help appreciated
|
| Andrew
|

[Yves Leclerc]

I know that this is an XP group, but I have seen this problem before. The
problem is the BIOS is not seeing the floppy drive correctly. It is thinking
that the drive is a 5.25 unit and it should be a 3.5 model. Check in the
BIOS.

Yves

"Jim Macklin" > wrote in message
...
> The problem isn't the drive, but the drivers for the
> motherboard or a bad cable.
>
> Are you still running W98, this is a W XP group.
>
> I suggest you check with a W 98 group. Windows XP has no
> support for anything except 1.44 MB floppy drives.
>
> You may need to reinstall your OS, flash your BIOS and as a
> last resort, replace the cable. If that doesn't work, then
> the drive should be replaced.
>
>
> "Andrew Tanner" > wrote in message
> ...
> | ello evrybody
> | ive got a huge problem with my floppy drive
> | the floppy drive that has the problem originally came with
> | the pc, which is running windows98, i think i accidently
> | deleted the one of ther drivers for my floppy drive and as
> | a result my floppy drive wont work how i wnt it 2, it
> | seems to want to use 5.25" floppies not the standard 3.5"
> | ones which is pretty odd, when i looked at the driver
> | details for it, i noticed to drivers, both in the system
> | of windows...now when i went in to explorer i looked at
> | the both and one of them is fine, it has the proper icon
> | nxt 2 it, the 2 cogs, but the other one of
> | namer 'hsflop.pdr' shows the windows logo ipon the icon
> | insttead of the cogs, to my own knowldge i believe this to
> | be just a corrput file, and i have tried reinstalling my
> | OS on it and that didnt solve anything at all, i do now
> | want to take the floppy drive out as it is a real pain to
> | even unscrew, so i was wondering if any1 can help me out
> | with this problem, also if u cud take the time to help me
> | out, please reply via email as it is much easier for me to
> | make direct contact with you, any help appreciated
> |
> | Andrew
> |
>
>