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Solve : !!!Floppy drive problem (pleaze help)!!!? |
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Answer» hello everybody..my floppy drive (A:) does not show up in my computer anymore...I bought the drive from a comp store and they installed it. I had it working and then one day it stopped showing up there. IVE TRIED EVERYTHING...checked BIOS, and it says its enabled. I downloaded tweakUI(cuz someone told me that WOULD work) it didnt. Device manager says its "working properly". the light on my floppy drive still turns on when i restart the computer. Is there anything i left out? I was thinking it had something to do with my windows xp automatic updates and MAYBE it messed with the drivers, but no the drivers are up to date...this is a very FRUSTRATING problem guys. ive looked on this forum to see if someone had the same problem as me but didnt find anything. my pc is a HP pavillion a884n (if u need that info)..any help would be GREATLY appreciated..thanksTo make sure the drive is still working, put drive a: at the top of the boot order in bios and insert a bootable floppy. Then REBOOT. Does the system see the drive at boot?yes i have already made sure the drive works.Well what exactly happens when you insert a floppy disc? Does Windows Explorer show an a: drive?Quote my floppy drive (A:) does not show up in my computer anymore...The cable came loose. - OR - The drive has gone bad. The floppy drive cabl has to be fully seated, just a small sixteenth of an inch can make the difference. He said the system sees the drive at boot.it does see the drive in boot, however i do not have any bootable disks. all of my floppy disks have drum sounds on them. i use those disks to load the sounds to my drum machine/sampler which also has a floppy drive. everything is connected properly, i dont know what to do anymore lol. i tried to boot one of my sound disks just to see if it would show the sounds on the disk. but it says this is not a bootable disk. duh.lolLet's go back to before you lied to me. Get a bootable floppy and see if the system sees it at boot. And even if it is not bootable, if the floppy is at the top of the boot order and there is a disk in the drive, the system should not boot.Knock it of, Allen. You don't call somebody a liar just because he did not understand you.He understood perfectly. If I'm taking the time to help someone the very least I expect is an honest response.DLoad a boot disk from bootdisk.com...WinME is fine... Extract the file to a clean floppy and test as Allan has instructed above...Quote from: patio on November 11, 2009, 04:09:20 PM DLoad a boot disk from bootdisk.com...WinME is fine...Correct me if I'm wrong (it's been so long.......). Even if it's a non-bootable disk and a: is at the top of the boot order, won't he get an "unbootable device" error? |
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