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Posted by gimpinthesink on Thu Oct 9th at 5:23am 2003

I am having a problem with my floppy drive where it will read the disks while windows is running but it wont read them when I boot the PC but it detects the drive.

It also does the same thing with the cdrom

I have tryed changing the floppy drive with another and it worked once and before I could format I had to shutdown and fix a fan and then when I got that working again the floppy drive wasn't.

So I am woundering if any of you know of a solution?

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Posted by Sim on Thu Oct 9th at 6:54am 2003

Isn't there anything about it in the bios?

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Posted by fraggard on Thu Oct 9th at 10:30am 2003

Check the IDE cables which connect the floppy drive to the motherboard. If you find a fault, replace the cable, don't try to fix it. It just won't work.



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Posted by Monqui on Thu Oct 9th at 2:27pm 2003

It sounds kinda like your boot order is ... out of ... order.

Try getting into the BIOS as your PC boot, and just look around in there until you find some list of items called "Boot Order" or somethin (can't remember exactly at the moment), and put the CDROM and Floppy drives BEFORE the Hard drive with the OS on it.

Although I thought floppies took precedence over the IDE chain, so it could be a bad connector on your board. [addsig]



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Posted by gimpinthesink on Thu Oct 9th at 6:32pm 2003

It says nothing about it in the BIOS.

The cable is fine I have already checked that when I was swaping the floppy drives.

and the boot order is

Floppy
CDROM
HDD

I think it probably is a bad IDE connector.

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Posted by Leperous on Thu Oct 9th at 7:51pm 2003

XP or older windows?



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Posted by gimpinthesink on Thu Oct 9th at 9:45pm 2003

Im on Win 2000 [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Oct 10th at 12:35am 2003

whenever you have issues with hardware you do these steps..

1) check all connections

2) take it out, and put it back in, somethings there is dust between the contacts.

3) go into properties, and uninstall it, shut  down, and restart, allowing windows to reinstall it..

do these steps in this order, usually this is all you need, assuming the hardware is not broken..

hope this helps.

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Posted by gimpinthesink on Tue Oct 14th at 5:30am 2003

I have tryed all them but now it refuses to work with windows now

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Posted by Leperous on Tue Oct 14th at 9:56am 2003

Can you boot into Windows 2000 from a floppy? And why would you want to if you have the CD? I always used to get the cable going into the floppy drive upside down, it would still have power but wouldn't otherwise work.





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Posted by gimpinthesink on Tue Oct 14th at 5:37pm 2003

No it detects it but it desnt try to read from it or the cd.

The cable isn't upside down cos I checked.

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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Oct 14th at 6:08pm 2003

if you somehow disabled the drives in your bios you need to turn them back on.. find out which "F" key will boot you into setup and make sure they are on..

it will tell you..

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