Eyman <user.RemoveThis@anon.com> wrote in message
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> Ive just replaced my floppy disk after the old one died.
How did you decide that the old one had died ?
If it was something other than the drive itself that
had died, replacing the drive wont fix the problem.
> Now I have this problem where the drive is is recognised
> by the 'whirring sound' prior to post, but it will not boot to
> a floppy or be operational in windows.
Which makes it much more likely that
it isnt actually the drive that has died.
> The bios is configured to boot to a floppy first as it was with the pevious
> drive. After posting it sits on a 'updating dmi pool' screen while it looks
> for something in the floppy to boot to with the floppy light lit up. It stays
> like this for a few seconds and then gives up and boots to windows.
Thats not surprising given that it cant read the diskette as evidenced later.
> Windows sees the floppy a: drive under file explorer,
> and under control panel the floppy drive and the floppy
> drive controller are both seen without any problems.
> Trying to access a disk that I know has data on it within windows
> comes up with a 'insert disk into a:' error. Ive tried other disks as well.
> Ive swapped cables and this doesnt seem to be the problem.
> The drive doesnt seem to be a problem as
> it is accessed but cant seem to read data.
> I havent changed any bios settings and
> Im 100% sure its plugged in correctly.
> Can someone please help?
Most likely the floppy controller the other end of
the ribbon cable is plugged into is what's died.
Try the new drive and cable in a different system to be sure
that its not just very bad luck of two dead drives in a row.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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