Floppy drive

[Peter Trist]

I am having Floppy Drive problems.

Installed Win XP on a new hard drive. Also using a new
motherboard. After the install, I can view the contents
of a floppy disk, but immediately upon accessing the
floppy drive, it will not stop running (the light stays
on, it continues to try accessing the drive), and I am
unable to edit the files or write to the disk. When I
eject the disk, the drive stops running, and File
Explorer unfreezes so that I can access other drives.

1) Checked the cables; they are inserted correctly.
2) Checked the Floppy Drive; it works in an old machine,
and a new drive has the exact same problem on this
machine.
3) Checked the floppy disk; it works in an old machine,
and a new disk has the exact same problem on this machine.

Anyone have any ideas/suggestions?

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Try links below

Hello

Try both links below

In Win XP Will not read floppy drives or diskettes.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282470

Floppy will not format under Win XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm

Alvin


Peter Trist wrote:

> I am having Floppy Drive problems.
>
> Installed Win XP on a new hard drive. Also using a new
> motherboard. After the install, I can view the contents
> of a floppy disk, but immediately upon accessing the
> floppy drive, it will not stop running (the light stays
> on, it continues to try accessing the drive), and I am
> unable to edit the files or write to the disk. When I
> eject the disk, the drive stops running, and File
> Explorer unfreezes so that I can access other drives.
>
> 1) Checked the cables; they are inserted correctly.
> 2) Checked the Floppy Drive; it works in an old machine,
> and a new drive has the exact same problem on this
> machine.
> 3) Checked the floppy disk; it works in an old machine,
> and a new disk has the exact same problem on this machine.
>
> Anyone have any ideas/suggestions?