Unable to access 'A' Drive

[joppa]

I am having problems with my 'A' Drive .
I am unable to access floppies and XP tells me that the
disk is not formatted when I know it is .
Also coming up with the following error -
'A':\ is not accessible. The disk media is nor
recognized. It may not be formatted.
I have tried formatting but it comes up with -Windows was
unable to complete the format.
What is wrong and how can I fix it ????

[rod_wade]

joppa wrote:

> I am having problems with my 'A' Drive .
> I am unable to access floppies and XP tells me that the
> disk is not formatted when I know it is .
> Also coming up with the following error -
> 'A':\ is not accessible. The disk media is nor
> recognized. It may not be formatted.
> I have tried formatting but it comes up with -Windows was
> unable to complete the format.
> What is wrong and how can I fix it ????



Check your bios to make absolutely sure that the floppy drive shows up
defined as a 1.44 Meg ..... If you have seek on startup then check that
option too! You can remove seek option later......

Do normal boot and if you have seek/startup enable the system should
"full stroke" the drive during startup....


By the way.... Does the drive LED light up at all during attempted access.??

You might just have a bad floppy disk drive.....

Hope this helps

[joppa]

Thanks for replying
I've checked the BIOS - all OK .
Yes the LED lights - power on and disk tries to access.
Only a recent problem -within last 2-3 days??
Any other suggestions ?