Hello, I have a Dell Inspiron 531 and it recently crashed. I used the recovery disk to redo the OS, but now it won't boot up. I get a black screen that says: floppy disk seek failure, then at the bottom of the page it says: press F1 to retry boot, or F2 to enter setup. I pressed F1 and the computer boots right up. I have tried the solutions that I've read in the forum about this "failure", but it hasn't worked. Please help.
Floppy Diskette Seek Failure, how to solve?
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dgingeri
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There's a setting in the bios that is supposed to describe the type of floppy drive installed on the machine. Most bios versions, including Dell's, default to "3.5" floppy." When it is set to this and there is no floppy drive, it will give this error you describe. You have to find the setting and change it to "disabled" or "none" to get it to boot right.
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