Problem with Floppy drive

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Have you made a Boot Floppy? If so, try it to see if it works......if it
doesn't, suspect a bad floppy drive. If you do not have a bootable floppy
(other than the one for delindex), you can download a boot floppy from
www.bootdisk.com .
Heirloom, old and gotta go to bed


"Speedy G." <SpeedyG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:248D58DF-198D-4F9F-ACDA-D247FAA8E9C0@microsoft.com...
> I'm having a problem my A:\ or my floppy drive. I am trying to access
> delindex via a floppy disk and when inserted into the drive on reboot, the
> computer disregards whatever is in the floppy drive and continues to boot
> into windows. Once in windows I would right click on floppy drive icon and
> then click onto explore, and an error message stating "A:\ is not
> accessible.
> The system cannot read from the specified device". I would then try to run
> scandisk on the A:\ drive with more errors stating "Scandisk detected an
> error while reading your drive. Scandisk detected an error while writing
> to
> your drive". The computer would then freeze.
> I've tried using different floppies and also tried to update the floppy
> disk controller from device manager to no avail.
> Can anyone offer some advice on troubleshooting this problem?
> The floppy is my only means to get into DOS on windows Me. Thanks.

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No go, Heirloom.
I've tried as you suggested, to no avail.
Windows keeps right on loading even when floppy is inserted.
I have another drive lying around here, but not sure if I have to configure
anything for the new floppy drive. What do I need to know to reinstall the
new floppy drive?

I also checked the BIOS but the floppy is enabled.

"Heirloom" wrote:

> Have you made a Boot Floppy? If so, try it to see if it works......if it
> doesn't, suspect a bad floppy drive. If you do not have a bootable floppy
> (other than the one for delindex), you can download a boot floppy from
> www.bootdisk.com .
> Heirloom, old and gotta go to bed
>
>
> "Speedy G." <SpeedyG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:248D58DF-198D-4F9F-ACDA-D247FAA8E9C0@microsoft.com...
> > I'm having a problem my A:\ or my floppy drive. I am trying to access
> > delindex via a floppy disk and when inserted into the drive on reboot, the
> > computer disregards whatever is in the floppy drive and continues to boot
> > into windows. Once in windows I would right click on floppy drive icon and
> > then click onto explore, and an error message stating "A:\ is not
> > accessible.
> > The system cannot read from the specified device". I would then try to run
> > scandisk on the A:\ drive with more errors stating "Scandisk detected an
> > error while reading your drive. Scandisk detected an error while writing
> > to
> > your drive". The computer would then freeze.
> > I've tried using different floppies and also tried to update the floppy
> > disk controller from device manager to no avail.
> > Can anyone offer some advice on troubleshooting this problem?
> > The floppy is my only means to get into DOS on windows Me. Thanks.
>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsme.general (More info?)

Before uninstalling the floppy drive I checked the connections to and from
the drive.
There was a loose connection(ribbon) that I secured and that seems to fix
the problem. I can now get into Dos. Thanks to all.

"Sunny" wrote:

> http://www.buildeasypc.com/hw/howto/instfdd.htm
>
> "Speedy G." <SpeedyG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:373852AF-7194-42BA-9C5A-245D4768B8F9@microsoft.com...
> > No go, Heirloom.
> > I've tried as you suggested, to no avail.
> > Windows keeps right on loading even when floppy is inserted.
> > I have another drive lying around here, but not sure if I have to
> > configure
> > anything for the new floppy drive. What do I need to know to reinstall the
> > new floppy drive?
> >
> > I also checked the BIOS but the floppy is enabled.
> >
> > "Heirloom" wrote:
> >
> >> Have you made a Boot Floppy? If so, try it to see if it works......if it
> >> doesn't, suspect a bad floppy drive. If you do not have a bootable
> >> floppy
> >> (other than the one for delindex), you can download a boot floppy from
> >> www.bootdisk.com .
> >> Heirloom, old and gotta go to bed
> >>
> >>
> >> "Speedy G." <SpeedyG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:248D58DF-198D-4F9F-ACDA-D247FAA8E9C0@microsoft.com...
> >> > I'm having a problem my A:\ or my floppy drive. I am trying to access
> >> > delindex via a floppy disk and when inserted into the drive on reboot,
> >> > the
> >> > computer disregards whatever is in the floppy drive and continues to
> >> > boot
> >> > into windows. Once in windows I would right click on floppy drive icon
> >> > and
> >> > then click onto explore, and an error message stating "A:\ is not
> >> > accessible.
> >> > The system cannot read from the specified device". I would then try to
> >> > run
> >> > scandisk on the A:\ drive with more errors stating "Scandisk detected
> >> > an
> >> > error while reading your drive. Scandisk detected an error while
> >> > writing
> >> > to
> >> > your drive". The computer would then freeze.
> >> > I've tried using different floppies and also tried to update the
> >> > floppy
> >> > disk controller from device manager to no avail.
> >> > Can anyone offer some advice on troubleshooting this problem?
> >> > The floppy is my only means to get into DOS on windows Me. Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>