Floppy Drive on XP

[hal]

John: Both floppy drives work in my old Pentium & W98
computer and neither works in the new Athlon & XP
computer. This makes me wonder if it is a matter of
cleaning the floppy drive. In light of that information,
what do you think ? Still blow out the drive ? hal
>-----Original Message-----
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Built new computer. Windows XP. Orig no floppy.
>>Installed old (working) floppy and it recognizes it, but
>>gives "INSERT DISK" pop up which reads "Please insert
>>floppy disk into drive A". Inserting floppy disk does
>>nothing and looks like it can't recognize the floppy
>disk
>>in the drive. Help would be appreciated.
>>.
>>
>I would try a can of compressed air, maybe a disk
>cleaning kit.
>.
>

[Maureen Goldman]

>"hal" > wrote:
>John: Both floppy drives work in my old Pentium & W98
>computer and neither works in the new Athlon & XP
>computer.

Sounds to me as though the ribbon is attached incorrectly in the new
computer.

[hal]

Thanks to Bob,Curt, Paul,John,Maureen who contributed.
Happy to report that the floppy is working. The 5th (or
was it the 6th) time I reversed the cable attachment to
the floppy drive and checked all connections...... it
worked (and the light) as it should. I note that the
drive now ejects the floppy with much more energy - like
on my other computers. I suspect multiple problems were
finally overcome (with a little luck), but consider that
it was primarily a cabling problem. Thanks again for your
encouragement and input. l

>-----Original Message-----
>>"hal" > wrote:
>>John: Both floppy drives work in my old Pentium & W98
>>computer and neither works in the new Athlon & XP
>>computer.
>
>Sounds to me as though the ribbon is attached incorrectly
in the new
>computer.
>
>.
>

[PaulC]

You're very welcome :-)
"hal" > wrote in message
...
> Thanks to Bob,Curt, Paul,John,Maureen who contributed.
> Happy to report that the floppy is working. The 5th (or
> was it the 6th) time I reversed the cable attachment to
> the floppy drive and checked all connections...... it
> worked (and the light) as it should. I note that the
> drive now ejects the floppy with much more energy - like
> on my other computers. I suspect multiple problems were
> finally overcome (with a little luck), but consider that
> it was primarily a cabling problem. Thanks again for your
> encouragement and input. l
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >>"hal" > wrote:
> >>John: Both floppy drives work in my old Pentium & W98
> >>computer and neither works in the new Athlon & XP
> >>computer.
> >
> >Sounds to me as though the ribbon is attached incorrectly
> in the new
> >computer.
> >
> >.
> >