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Offline Windrunner

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Well its like this, i have a friend and he has got some problems with his computers floppy drive. The problem is that it won't read any floppy disk you put in to the drive. I only get message where it saís that there is no disk to read.

Can anyone give  some adivse on how to fix it.

His comp. secs are:

Intel P. 2 (probably 300mhz)
3 GB HD  :sigh:
63 MB RAM
Packard Bell



Tnx
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Offline Redfang

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Have you checked the cables that they're okay?
 
And what about drives?
 

 
Edit: And hey, my current computer has as big HD. :D
 

 
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Offline RandomTiger

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Are you sure the floppy disc is formatted or hasnt been damamged.

You might also want to make sure your bios options are correct

 

Offline Darkage

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Does th FDD light keep burning ? even whitout a Disk in it? if so then the cable could be insert wrong. Allot of older FDD's don't have a socket where you can't plug the cable in the wrong way.
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Offline Levyathan

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Insert the side with the moving metal (could be plastic) piece first.

 

Offline Stealth

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yeah, if the "read" light is constantly on (except when the computer's off, doh) then that means you've got the cable the wrong way... a common problem.

If the light's not on all the time, then try switching floppy drives, or testing the motherboard's floppy drive port

 

Offline Carl

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or it could simply be broken.
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lol ok click on my computer then click property
then system
tell me what its  using dos compat mode or not
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Offline Stealth

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or it could simply be broken.


that's why i told him to try with a different floppy drive :D

 

Offline an0n

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Mine is fux0red. The BIOS can't find it apparently, so I have to press F1 everytime I boot-up. I think I musta jarred something while I was overclocking. Meh.
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Offline Windrunner

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Originally posted by darkage
Does th FDD light keep burning ? even whitout a Disk in it? if so then the cable could be insert wrong. Allot of older FDD's don't have a socket where you can't plug the cable in the wrong way.


Ok i'l try that, thanks:nod:
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Offline Bri_Dog

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Mine is fux0red. The BIOS can't find it apparently, so I have to press F1 everytime I boot-up. I think I musta jarred something while I was overclocking. Meh.


overclocking can realy mess your pc up if you try setting it too high.
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Offline vyper

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Originally posted by Bri_Dog


overclocking can realy mess your pc up if you try setting it too high.


Yes, it can. Sparks. Smoke. £90 component replacement. EEK
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Offline wEvil

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Its an oldly machine - id say just go out and get another FDD...its only about a tenner!

 

Offline CP5670

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Just as a test, you could try attaching an external floppy drive to the unit and see if it reads that, so to isolate the problem to the hardware or software.

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Edit: And hey, my current computer has as big HD. :D


My first computer (80286) had a 8MB hard drive, and the second (mac 68030) had a 160MB one. :D :D

 

Offline wEvil

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you were lucky - i started on an XT with a 5mb tape drive!

hehehe

 

Offline Bri_Dog

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you were lucky - i started on an XT with a 5mb tape drive!

hehehe


Ah the good ole days of XTs  :D
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Offline Whitelight

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Also if the floppy drive has been set to read double density disks (720K by default) it will give an error and not read 1.44 floppies... Been a long time since i`ve delt with this problem, so I may be wrong.. :)
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Offline Whitelight

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If you have recently formatted a double density disk, this may also cause a (no disk in drive error) when you try to read a 1.44 disk.. That is if you have formatted a 720k disk, that are by the way rare ...     I think i`ll shutup now :nod:
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Offline CP5670

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I think I might still have a few of those (as well as some of the 5" ones that are literally floppy) lying around... :p :D