Re: Floppy Drive Won't Recognize Disks
- From: Sunny <sunny@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:07:13 -0400
Andy wrote:
What you want to do is isolate the problem as either hardware or
software. To do this I always recommend booting the computer with a
DOS diskette. If it boots to DOS, the hardware works fine.
Very sensible advice.
However, it won't isolate the problem. I've seen numerous cases where the system repeatedly boots DOS just fine from floppy, but a fresh XP install won't acknowledge the same diskette in the same drive.
I am a longtime user of an ancient DOS program called Disk Copy Fast. It reads and writes floppy disk images much faster than DOS or any newer operating system I've used, and it works in XP. I have a large collection of useful bootable floppy images on my hard drive, and I use DCF to make a boot floppy whenever I need one. XP often claims there is no diskette in the drive immediately after successfully writing an image using DCF - but if I reboot, the system always boots from the non-existent floppy just fine. When I reboot into XP, the floppy is usually (but not always) gone again.
In my experience XP only pretends to support floppy drives - sometimes they work, more often not. It's much less frustrating to use a USB thumb drive instead.
Sunny
On 4 Apr 2006 05:51:43 -0700, soccastar001@xxxxxxxxx wrote:.
When I put a disk in a brand new floppy drive on my computer it and try
to open it it says "please insert floppy" even though there's one
already in there.
When I try to access the floppy from a command prompt it says "device
not ready". How do I fix this?
- References:
- Floppy Drive Won't Recognize Disks
- From: soccastar001
- Floppy Drive Won't Recognize Disks
- Prev by Date: Re: XP not seeing 4 gb RAM
- Next by Date: DVD ROM GAME PROBLEM
- Previous by thread: Re: Floppy Drive Won't Recognize Disks
- Next by thread: Re: Dymanic Hard Disk??? Not working..help needed
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
