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Not reading floppy drive
I recently installed Windows XP home with the SP2 pack. Ever since then my
floppy drive does not read the disks that I put in it. I have removed the disk and drivers and re-installed them. The O/S is reconising that I have a floppy drive but still no success. I have installed another floppy drive and still the same problem. Also the green light is always on. Any help would be appreciated. |
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Not reading floppy drive
try changing the cable to the drive and make certain it is hooked-up
correctly, meaning, it may be possible to connect it to the drive, upside down. I have heard people say they have done this.. "Rob Stent" wrote in message ... I recently installed Windows XP home with the SP2 pack. Ever since then my floppy drive does not read the disks that I put in it. I have removed the disk and drivers and re-installed them. The O/S is reconising that I have a floppy drive but still no success. I have installed another floppy drive and still the same problem. Also the green light is always on. Any help would be appreciated. |
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Not reading floppy drive
"Rob Stent" wrote in message
... I recently installed Windows XP home with the SP2 pack. Ever since then my floppy drive does not read the disks that I put in it. I have removed the disk and drivers and re-installed them. The O/S is reconising that I have a floppy drive but still no success. I have installed another floppy drive and still the same problem. Also the green light is always on. Any help would be appreciated. The always-on LED on the floppy drive means the ribbon cable on it is reversed. Some are polarized by having a small tab that sticks out from the plastic header to match with a notch in the connector, but lots of ribbon cables are cheap and have no tab so they are unpolarized and can be inserted the right way or reversed (the wrong way). Switch the ribbon cable around. -- __________________________________________________ _______________ Post your replies to the newsgroup. Share with others. E-mail: vanguard_help AT yahoo.com (append "#NEWS#" to Subject) __________________________________________________ _______________ |
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Not reading floppy drive
Mistake #1...
Windows XP Home Edition (Get Professional) Mistake #2... Service Pack 2 (A complete nightmare and disaster) I would recommend installing XP Pro fresh, with Service Pack 1 and all the latest hotfixes, avoid SP2 and Home Edition. Thomas -----Original Message----- I recently installed Windows XP home with the SP2 pack. Ever since then my floppy drive does not read the disks that I put in it. I have removed the disk and drivers and re-installed them. The O/S is reconising that I have a floppy drive but still no success. I have installed another floppy drive and still the same problem. Also the green light is always on. Any help would be appreciated. . |
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