Floppy Drive

[Guest attilathehun1]

I installed an almost new floppy drive into this HP pavilion 503n desktop PC,

scraped together DIY kinda, and now it's not recognizing any floppy diskettes

I put into it. I uninstalled the drive and reinstalled it but still the same

problems. I did get it working properly 2 days ago when I went into BIOS and

saved the changes, which weren't any, really. I didn't make any changes

except put something on Auto, from Disable. I think the USB Legacy. But, then

the same thing started happening when I changed the parallel cables from

normal to cable select cables, the ones with the small hole near the end

connector. Anyways, after doing that and moving the jumpers on the Samsung

hard drive to cable select position the OS wasn't being recognized. Only when

I changed the jumper back to the master position did the operating system,

Windows XP Home, come back. But, the same problem again with the floppy drive

not working.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, attilathehun1

attilathehun1

[Guest Jerry]

Re: Floppy Drive

 

"attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:C0251A3B-7E28-4861-B281-DF8EC251E659@microsoft.com...

>I installed an almost new floppy drive into this HP pavilion 503n desktop

>PC,

> scraped together DIY kinda, and now it's not recognizing any floppy

> diskettes

> I put into it. I uninstalled the drive and reinstalled it but still the

> same

> problems. I did get it working properly 2 days ago when I went into BIOS

> and

> saved the changes, which weren't any, really. I didn't make any changes

> except put something on Auto, from Disable. I think the USB Legacy. But,

> then

> the same thing started happening when I changed the parallel cables from

> normal to cable select cables, the ones with the small hole near the end

> connector. Anyways, after doing that and moving the jumpers on the Samsung

> hard drive to cable select position the OS wasn't being recognized. Only

> when

> I changed the jumper back to the master position did the operating system,

> Windows XP Home, come back. But, the same problem again with the floppy

> drive

> not working.

> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

> Thanks, attilathehun1

> attilathehun1

 

In many current systems sold without floppies, the floppy has to be enabled

in the bios. Why on earth would you screw with the jumpers on your hard

drives to try and get a floppy working? Also, if you don't know what option

in the bios you changed from disable to auto, I would suggest you write

setting down on a piece of paper before you mess with them.

[Guest Onsokumaru]

Re: Floppy Drive

 

You really sound like you don't have a clue.

 

There is no cable select for floppies, and you enable the FDD in the BIOS

under legacy diskette, or Drive A:, where you must speciffy the density of

the disks you are using.

 

The floppy ribbon has a red stripe on it. This end must be at pin one on

both the FDD and the motherboard connections. Sometimes they do no match.

 

You might need to select "swap floppy" in the BIOS. You can try this if the

FDD drive light stays on.

 

Don't forget to plug in the power.

 

"attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:C0251A3B-7E28-4861-B281-DF8EC251E659@microsoft.com...

>I installed an almost new floppy drive into this HP pavilion 503n desktop

>PC,

> scraped together DIY kinda, and now it's not recognizing any floppy

> diskettes

> I put into it. I uninstalled the drive and reinstalled it but still the

> same

> problems. I did get it working properly 2 days ago when I went into BIOS

> and

> saved the changes, which weren't any, really. I didn't make any changes

> except put something on Auto, from Disable. I think the USB Legacy. But,

> then

> the same thing started happening when I changed the parallel cables from

> normal to cable select cables, the ones with the small hole near the end

> connector. Anyways, after doing that and moving the jumpers on the Samsung

> hard drive to cable select position the OS wasn't being recognized. Only

> when

> I changed the jumper back to the master position did the operating system,

> Windows XP Home, come back. But, the same problem again with the floppy

> drive

> not working.

> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

> Thanks, attilathehun1

> attilathehun1

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: Floppy Drive

 

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:50:00 -0800, attilathehun1

<attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I installed an almost new floppy drive into this HP pavilion 503n desktop PC,

> scraped together DIY kinda, and now it's not recognizing any floppy diskettes

> I put into it. I uninstalled the drive and reinstalled it but still the same

> problems. I did get it working properly 2 days ago when I went into BIOS and

> saved the changes, which weren't any, really. I didn't make any changes

> except put something on Auto, from Disable. I think the USB Legacy. But, then

> the same thing started happening when I changed the parallel cables from

> normal to cable select cables, the ones with the small hole near the end

> connector. Anyways, after doing that and moving the jumpers on the Samsung

> hard drive to cable select position the OS wasn't being recognized. Only when

> I changed the jumper back to the master position did the operating system,

> Windows XP Home, come back. But, the same problem again with the floppy drive

> not working.

> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

Are these floppies that were created under a previous version of

Windows or DOS? If so, your problem is very likely the Media

Descriptor byte issue described here:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=140060

 

 

--

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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