[Windrunner]

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  
63 MB RAM
Packard Bell



Tnx
-Windrunner

[Redfang]

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

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

 

[RandomTiger]

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

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

[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.

[Levyathan]

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

[Stealth]

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

[Carl]

or it could simply be broken.

[saturn114]

lol ok click on my computer then click property
then system
tell me what its  using dos compat mode or not

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Carl
or it could simply be broken.

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

[an0n]

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.

[Windrunner]

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:

[Bri_Dog]

Originally posted by an0n
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.

[vyper]

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

[wEvil]

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

[CP5670]

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.

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

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

[wEvil]

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

hehehe

[Bri_Dog]

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

hehehe

Ah the good ole days of XTs  

[Whitelight]

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..

[Whitelight]

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

[CP5670]

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