Floppy Drive refuses to work!

I've been unable to get my floppy drive to work. When trying to access it, the message" "insert a disk intro drive A." I have a new 865PE Neo2-P. I've re-connected the power and FDD connector and confirmed the plugs are in and tight. The FDD controller is enabled in the bios. Is my Floppy bad? Am I missing something?

Try a diskette thas work in another computer. (it could be your diskette or FDD).
Hope it would help you.
Please dont forget to give your signature (computer spec).
Casing Tt Xaser III Skull
M/B 865 PE Neo-2 PFS Platinum Edition Bios Ver.3.6
CPU:P4 2.4C (HT enable) and ThermalTake SubZero 4G
(DOT Rank=Commander,Turbo,2395 mHz - 2760 mHz)
Memory: Corsair XMS 3500 2x512 meg (dual-channel dimm 2 and 4)
VGA:ELSA Gladiac 925 Ti4600
HD:2 SATA Maxtor 80gig and 1 ATA Maxtor 80Gig
CD/RW Yamaha and Pioneer DVD
PSU:ThermalTake Silent PurePower 480W (W0010/Black)
+5 V/40 A, +3.3 V/30 A, +12 V/18 A, -5 V/0.3 A, -12 V/0.8 A, +5 VSB/2 A Peak Load 550 W
Window XP PRO SP1
NEC FP2141SB
Microsoft DesktopPro
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum + Klipsch Promedia 4.1

Similar Messages

USB floppy drive doesn't work

Hello.
I just bought a floppy drive and it may seem defective. I DID load at least ONE disk (System 7.1 install disk 1) but then it went crazy. Now all it does is make one beep every few seconds. What happened?

"I DID load at least ONE disk (System 7.1 install disk 1) but then it went crazy."
The OS 7.1 install disk set is likely on 800K-formatted floppy disks. The easiest way to differentiate between a Double-Density (720K) and High-Density (1.44 MB) disk is the extra hole at the back corner on the 1.44 MB disk. A Double-Density disk only has the single hole with the sliding lock tab. Modern USB floppy disk drives support the 720K and 1.44 MB disks used in PCs, but don't support Apple's 800K-formatted disks. Apple's FDDs had a variable-speed motor, which enabled them to accommodate 800K of data on a 720K disk. This is what caused the drive to become unstable.
"Please also note that I had a floppy working at one point."
If it was an Apple-formatted disk, I assume that it was a 1.44 MB type.

PB 1400 CD & Floppy Drive won't work

We gave our granddaughter my wife's Powerbook 1400CS which she used for about 6 months. She brought it back because the CD and floppy drives will no longer work. Even if I open the drive with a paperclip and insert a CD it will not be recognized – same for a floppy. I got a serial cable and in target mode did a clean install of 8.6 but still the drives won't work. Does anyone know why?

Larry
The HDD in the PB 1400 is ATA Bus 0, and the CD-ROM is ATA Bus 4. (See ASP/Devices.) The FDD is well, the floppy drive. It is at least worth while for you to check that it is not drive faults that you are dealing with, but some other, since mass but selective failure of the buses seems unlikely.
If the PB's AC adapter is functional, it may still happen that the 'backup' battery (or batteries if it is an 'extended' 1400) has not recovered from depletion at some recent time. PRAM and Power Manager may be feeling poorly enough not to remember what they should and what is where. If you boot the PB, and then remove first the AC adapter and then the main battery, you should get up to 2min of remaining life from a good backup battery. If you get instant shutdown, you can fairly guess that the backup didn't. The backup(s) begin to charge only when the main is fully charged. What is the state of charge of the main in the Control Strip? If it shows full, leave the PB on the adapter for 24-48hr to make sure of the charge on the backup. Otherwise, set the main to charge (with the PB off), and add 24-48hr more after the main shows full charge.
Then start up with a traditional PRAM-zap. The PB will shut down in response, and can be restarted with the reset switch between the serial and ADB ports. Then you can validly sleep-swap the CD-ROM and FDD to check their function. Is it possible that they have been swapped while the PB was not off or asleep?
System installation in target disk mode via the HDI-30 port does not work because PB-specific software does not get installed. It is conceivable that a serial port installation will also not work, again because the PB is not identified to the host machine as a PB.

HP 2TB Drive refuses to work

My 2TB external hdd suddenly up and stopped. It now hangs and will not load. It shows up as an HP HDD external drive on the device manager, shows a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark on the usb hub. Detail shows the driver not loading. When you plug in the drive - the whole computer slows to a hang/stop. Selecting computer, it shows drive (F) and not drive (H). The HP Launcher software does not work. It seems to be a root problem failure all by its self. I've tried the new software update and cannot load it directly onto the the external drive as it cannot be accessed. All I have right now is an external paperweight.
What can I do?

External drives do fail. First, test this drive on another PC to see if it responds the same way. One last attempt would be to try making a Linux Live CD, boot to that CD to see if it can read the drive. Ubuntu works well for this duty. Make the Live CD, boot to the new CD, as it does not alter the Windows install. Sometimes Windows will get or cause a problem that Linux can overlook.
If that cannot read the drive, it might be time to replace. If you really need data stored on the drive, one could remove the drive from the case and use a USB adapter to read the drive directly, as sometimes the external interface is the failed component.
{---------- Please click the "Thumbs Up" to say thanks for helping.
Please click "Accept As Solution" if my help has solved your problem. ----------}
This is a user supported forum. I am a volunteer and I do not work for HP.

Floppy drive doesn't work

Hi there,
My new K8N Neo2 Platinum won't recognise the A: drive. I have tried different drives, different interface cables, and even swapping the cable the other (wrong) way around (even though both sockets are keyed). Still nothing.
I have played with the floppy seek setting in the BIOS without success.
The system runs fine (except for a refusal to boot first thing in the morning - power off, then on, does the trick).
My BIOS version is 1.2 (cf the latest 1.4). I should probably update via Live Update but I don't want to risk screwing my system for good.
Do I need a new board??

Whew! Gee I'm glad I don't have to return this board...
(BIOS -> Std CMOS -> take A: off 'none'...)

External drive refuses to work and the other is very slow

I was not sure if I should put this in Lion or macbook pro section since thats what I am trying on (mid 2010) version.
Hi,
I purchased maybe 4-6 months ago a Toshiba E05A100SBU3EW_C STOR.E ART 4 1TB USB 3.0 2.5 inch Hard Drive - Black from amazon and one day it just suddenly stopped working and I was wondering if any one knew how to get it working again on my mac or windows machine, please as it has a lot of important data
it is this hard drive: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004NE76KQ/ref=oh_o01_s00_i00_details
it makes no sounds or noises on my mac but when I plug it into my windows machine it does make a noise but then there is nothing in my computer and it will not recognise the device at all
Toshiba E05A100SBU3EW_C STOR.E ART 4 1TB USB 3.0 2.5 inch Hard Drive - Black
warranty is valid but I really hope I can save the files
I am getting a message from my macbook pro saying that its disconnecting it due to too much power or not enough, why would it say this and how can I re enable the drive?
Also I have a second DW or is it WD I forget but it works but its just runing 10 times slower then normal and I cant figure out why as I never touched them they just one day started acting this way after I had my macs scren replaced one of the ports is 3.0..
do you think the guy could of swapped out the usb t a 2.0 one? but then why would my mac keep telling me that its ejecting the drive

Have you tried updating your software? The issue with the keys will either be a software issue or an issue with your hardware, if you're on the newest software try re-installing it. It's very simple to do using the desktop software, if this does not work it seems to be a hardware issue, meaning repair or replacement is needed.
Also, updating/re-installing your software should also resolve any slow/freezing issues and hopefully stop your dialling problem.
Hope this helps
Adam
EE Blackberry Specialist

Floppy drive not working, Light stays on

My floppy drive is not working. I bought a new floppy drive, its detected by the BIOS, but with a disk inside nothing happens, lights don't even come on.
So I swapped it with an older working floppy drive from another PC. With this one the lights come on and stays on. I let it boot to Windows XP (light still on) and I insert a disk, you can hear it spinning it, it keeps spinning it until I eject the disk, also windows puts a message box saying "please insert disk". I searched the forums and found https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=44664.0 checked my cable it was connected the right way. For the hell of it I reversed it, nothing happened. This cable was the round cable that comes with the motherboard (k8n Neo2 platinum), so i tried an older flat cable nothing same result.
The drive is detected in the BIOS. Windwos XP shows it in driver manager and its says working properly.
What could it be?

Sad to say it's what you've already tried. The cable is into the floppy upside down.
Make sure your using the cable end connectors not any mid cable plugs.
The ones supplied by MSI have often had problems.
Quote
There was a notch on the top of it which made me believe it was keyed, turns out there is no key slot to put it into
Has fooled us all at one time or another

Tips for working with USB floppy drives

I was just wondering if anyone had any tips on working with USB floppy drives in Archlinux.
One thing I've noticed is that trying to use mkfs.msdos on my USB floppy drive directly doesn't seem to result in a usable disk (it's mountable, but reports that I don't have enough space available to copy files), but if I use the command on an image file the same size as a floppy disk and then use dd to copy the blank image to my USB drive I get a disk that's perfectly usable. Anybody know what the deal is with that or how I might be able to successfully format a disk in fewer steps (other than keeping the blank images around and just using dd to format the floppies, haha)?
Also, I'd like to hear any other tips or tricks any of you have for working with USB floppy drives. They just seem so much more usable under Windows as opposed to Linux, and that disappoints me a little.

jmetal88 wrote:Okay, thanks guys. I haven't figured out the issue yet, but you're helping me narrow it down. I decided to run a df -h command after each try of formatting the disk this time. I tried the low-level ufiformat command followed by a mkfs.msdos on the device, using a 720k disk, and df -h showed 700k free on the file system. It's just not making the file system large enough (I believe the file I was trying to copy over was 710k or so). When I run mkfs.msdos on a 720k disk image and then dd the image over to the drive, df -h shows 713k free after mounting the drive. Any idea why mkfs.msdos isn't filling out the full 720k on the disk itself, but is on the image?
I would assume this happens because (as far as I can tell from skimming through the source over the course of a few minutes) mkfs.fat only applies floppy size heuristics to fd and lo devices -- your USB floppy drive is treated as a hard drive, and that leads to less-than-ideal default parameters. Run
fsck.fat -v
on the more spacious filesystem to figure out what options need to be set when you attempt formatting an actual disk. Or just make things easier by keeping newly-formatted blank disk images on hand so that dd and (maybe) ufiformat are all you need to worry about.

Floppy Drive not work in Solaris x86

Hello all,
I have been installed Solaris 10 x86 1/06 beta but after installation there is no possible to use floppy drive. I cannot mount it.
How to solve this problem?
Thank You.
Sincerely Yours,
Girts Zeltins

Bug 6294851 perhaps?
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6 294851
The patch documented in the bug's workaround section should work on
Solaris 10 x86 GA. Not sure if it is OK for Solaris 10 x86 1/06 beta.

Floppy drive not working on Neo2-FIS2R

This is a bizarre one. When we first set the system up, the a: wouldn't work. So we tried 2 different floppy drives and 3 different cables. Eventually the floppy drive just started to spontaneously worked - this allowed us to set up the Intel RAID array (since windows XP needs the F6 + disk in A: to install the drivers).
Then, after having XP installed, the a: wouldn't work from windows. This was rather bizarre.
Then later on it just spontaneously started working again, so I took the opportunity to flash to bios 1.3. Now it has stopped working, and that didn't trouble me so much as I don't have much need for an A: generally.
However I was overclocking the system, and evidently had too low a voltage on the memory, did a memory benchmark in SiSoft Sadra and it hung in the middle, so I reset the computer. Ever since that, booting into Windows had some strange problems, CoreCenter, among other programs, would not start correctly - it would show up in the processes, but the window wouldn't show. Likewise running Sandra or 3dMark, they'd show up as active processes but would not actually be usable. Until I played a music file in winamp - then suddenly all the programs would open up.
So I figured, right, time to reinstall windows. And it has since turned out that my hard drives were buggered somehow (or at least, they are now) and so I have to format them and start from scratch. Thus leading to the problem.
How are you supposed to install the drivers for RAID from an A: if your A: does not work? The drive light goes on as if it's trying to read, and it makes noises with the head moving around or something, but it just will not recognize any disk in the drive. Including putting a valid windows 98 boot disk and restarting - it says it is searching for a boot record, but cannot find one on the disk.
We have tried 3 different cables and 2 different floppy drives, various settings for turning the FDC on the system on and off to no avail. The curious thing is that it's randomly started working by itself in the past.
Anyone have any ideas what's up? We're trying to find a PCI floppy controller right now to see if we can just avoid the problem completely.
Is the board buggered or what?

I found the problem, it was rather stupid, and probably pretty system-specific, but just incase anyone else has the same problem and it drives them insane...
The problem was a mechanical one - the case I have has a panel that it puts on over top of the floppy drive. There is a button that connects with the eject button on the drive. The problem was the drive was seated about 2 mm too far forwards, so when you put a disk in the drive, it was pushed too far back and not properly seated, making it unreadable.
Fixed it now though.

Toshiba 5200/100 - CMOS battery replacement to get floppy drive working

Unit still working fine, under Windows 3.1.
Startup now, by setting time & date (CMOS battery).
However, recently the Floppy drive is NOT coming "ready".
Would it help to replace the CMOS battery to get the Floppy Drive working again ?
Pls. advise. Any advise welcome. T.I.A.
Nap - Gent - Belgium

Hi
CMOS battery is needed to keep the BIOS settings saved.
It looks like the CMOS battery is empty if you need to set the date and time always in the BIOS settings. But the CMOS battery has nothing to do with the floppy drive.

P6N SLI Plat and floppy drive not working

System says the floppy drive works fine, but I put in a disc and it doesn't recognize it. All I get is, "Please insert disc".
Windows says that drivers are up to date.
I really need to get it working so I can do a fresh OS install with raid drivers on the floppy.
I think im just retarded, or both my floppy drives are dead... or both my floppy discs are dead.
Any ideas?
Intel 6420 C2D
P6N SLI Platinum
2x1 G.Skill 800
2x1 seagate 320's

From what I'm reading it sounds like you are able to boot to Windows at the moment right?
If so, why not skip using a floppy disk to load driver, and just slipstream your RAID drivers into a Windows install CD?
There are tutorials all over the web to do this, here's a good one:
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/How-To--Slipstream-your-XP-installation
Regarding your floppy issue, it's very possible for your floppies to be dead. Almost all of mine that I have around are toast by the time I get around to using them.
If you're dead set on using a floppy to load your RAID drivers, go buy a couple new floppies and see if you still have the same problem. If so, then you're a new $14 floppy drive away from solving your problem...

USB Floppy Drive with Leopard?

I'm not sure where else to post this... I have an NEC USB Floppy Drive that used to work under Tiger. Since updating to Leopard, the drive is no longer recognized.
It does, however, work under Parallels Desktop running Windows XP (I got a message that a Flashbuster-U floppy drive was detected.)
The drive is pretty old - it was part of a laptop project from 1998 or so, and while it is still functional, I'm surprised that the support isn't built in anymore.

I did a Google search on "NEC USB floppy" as well as "mac usb floppy" and found nothing other than information regarding SuperDrives, various flavors of Iomega drives, and something called Pace that referred to floppy drives in OS9.
Oh well. Pain in the butt to run Windows every time I would need it (and honestly the need is not that great) but as long as I can make it work...
-Z

Floppy Drive not seen by Mt. Lion OS

Since I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion (10.8.4), my iTunes turns on and off by itself. Also, floppy drive is no longer recognized by iDVD or iTunes, nor will it recognize setup software disks. I also run Parallels Desktop for MAC - 7. This virtual drive runs Windows XP. The floppy drive works just fine with Windows Media Player. Any idea how to turn on Mt. Lion to see the floppy drilve?

Just connecting a USB floppy drive to Mountain Lion (in my case 10.8.4) will not mount anything to the Desktop -- until you insert a floppy disk. Mine is a SmartDisk VST Floppy Drive Titanium (FDUSB-TM) from the late 1990's. No installable drivers. Just works with OS X usb. They are out of business.

Epson printer driver no longer working after 10.4.11 update

It seems that my original Epson driver for my Stylus Photo 750 is no longer working after my latest Tiger update. The system does recognise it but shows an exclamation mark behind it and refuses to print with it (the document stays in the waiting line forever). Reinstalling as well as repairing permissions didn´t help. Fortunately the Gimp Epson driver is still working but I have no access to my coloursync profiles with this driver.
I know that many printer drivers need to be rewritten for Leopard (one of the reasons I didn´t update yet) but it is not understandable why problems happen with a Tiger update.
Does anyone know a workaround?
Thanks very much
Wolfgang

I just discovered a similar problem. I have an old Epson SC3000 and under 10.4.11 my computer doesn't communicate with the printer. It's an AppleTalk printer, connected via Ethernet. I tried bypassing my network switch and connected it directly to the Mac-- no go. I then rebooted into 10.3.9 and printing works fine.
I downloaded the driver from Epson and installed it in 10.4.11. When I try to add the printer in the Printer Setup Utility, the machine just hangs-- can't force quit the utility and eventually the Finder even stops responding. It takes a hard reboot to clear up.
I can't say whether or not printing worked in earlier versions of 10.4. I haven't been using 10.4 for very long, and I rarely use the SC3000.

Floppy Drive refuses to work!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for