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Floppy disk Problems
Floppy drive suddenly stopped working ,Get popup screen when trying to
read a disk Its a Dell computer Pent 3 790 Mhz Windows xp Pro sp-2 The problem started suddenly ,no apparent reason with WinXp Home isnstalled . The pop up screen reads "Please install a disk in Drive A " . With some disks . With other disks it reads " The disk in drive a is not formatted etc " In attempting to troubleshoot I tried 2 other drives with cables that worked in other computers .I also did a new install of WinXp pro SP-2 and still get the same problems . Ive also formatted new disks in another computer with XP Pro installed to use Ive check the Bios but dont see any problem although I may not no what to look for. The cables are tight and properly installed Thanks for taking the time to help me out Flipperf |
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Floppy disk Problems
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Floppy drive suddenly stopped working ,Get popup screen when trying to read a disk Its a Dell computer Pent 3 790 Mhz Windows xp Pro sp-2 The problem started suddenly ,no apparent reason with WinXp Home isnstalled . The pop up screen reads "Please install a disk in Drive A " . With some disks . With other disks it reads " The disk in drive a is not formatted etc " In attempting to troubleshoot I tried 2 other drives with cables that worked in other computers .I also did a new install of WinXp pro SP-2 and still get the same problems . Ive also formatted new disks in another computer with XP Pro installed to use Ive check the Bios but dont see any problem although I may not no what to look for. The cables are tight and properly installed Thanks for taking the time to help me out Flipperf The drive itself may have become bad. Have you tried using a different drive? You should be able to get one for under $10. -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email http://www.fjsmjs.com Protect your PC http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/ |
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Floppy disk Problems
"OleDawg" wrote in message ... Floppy drive suddenly stopped working ,Get popup screen when trying to read a disk Its a Dell computer Pent 3 790 Mhz Windows xp Pro sp-2 The problem started suddenly ,no apparent reason with WinXp Home isnstalled . The pop up screen reads "Please install a disk in Drive A " . With some disks . With other disks it reads " The disk in drive a is not formatted etc " In attempting to troubleshoot I tried 2 other drives with cables that worked in other computers .I also did a new install of WinXp pro SP-2 and still get the same problems . Ive also formatted new disks in another computer with XP Pro installed to use The cables are tight and properly installed Ive check the Bios but dont see any problem although I may not no what to look for. Onboard FDD controller--1.44 3 1/4 --mode 3 support (if the drive is a Mode 3) Try the links below In Win XP Will not read floppy drives or diskettes. http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;282470 Floppy will not format under Win XP http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm http://support.microsoft.com/default...roduct=win2000 http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;140060 I think this is the 'current' hardware compatibility link for x86 and caution, if that's a new dell box, dell isn't too good on following 'industry standard' PC clone rules. The biggest problems are usually in the video card and (you've learned this) scsi or ata disk controller. try at first: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/ Cause 1: This error can be caused if the Drive Image 2002 virtual floppy files have been compressed by Windows XP. (The "Disk Cleanup" feature in Windows XP has an option to compress files on NTFS partitions if those files have not been accessed for a specific amount of time.) When Drive Image reboots to true DOS mode to perform an imaging task, it is unable to find the virtual floppy files it needs to perform the task since DOS cannot access files that Windows XP has compressed. Good luck |
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