Floppy Problems

Openfire3 · #1 11-13-2002, 06:59 AM

"Hi, when I put a disk into my floopy drive I always get the message, "Disk in Drive A is not fromatted. Would you like to now?" I have tried tons of disks and they have all worked before. I have been askin about this for weeks now and still have had no luck. I even tried gettin a new floppy and then a new ribbon cable but still no luck. When I do try to go ahead and format it gives me some kind of I/O error. Then it says the disk could not be formatted. I have no more ideas. Any help would be extremely appreciated!
Billy"

This is a topic from computing.net and I have the same problem. There is no answer that solve the problem, hope someone here can solve it.

Disk_Contented · #2 11-13-2002, 12:15 PM

Is the drive able to boot from floppy?
Can you copy files to a disk?
Some bios's have a read only option for floppy, its a long shot but have a look.

Openfire3 · #3 11-13-2002, 01:45 PM

Is the drive able to boot from floppy? no
Can you copy files to a disk? no
Some bios's have a read only option for floppy, its a long shot but have a look. I already look and it's in r/w mode

Disk_Contented · #4 11-14-2002, 03:02 PM

Then all i can say, is it looks like a mainboard problem.

dick471 · #5 12-08-2002, 06:59 AM

I get this same thing in XP with my LS-120 "B" floppy. I can't explain why, but I just eject the disk, put it back in, open PowerQuest "PowerDesk" and it reads the LS-120. I then reopen windows explorer and low and behold it reads the LS-120 disk. If I ever find out why, I'll post.

hw45 · #6 12-08-2002, 11:23 AM

Maybe that can help you:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;118791

hw45 · #7 12-08-2002, 11:27 AM

Sorry, this is the correct link:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;183720