floppy disk drive problem

what error message do you get? drive not ready?
It work on a safe boot and boot to dos. So your drive is ok. Then windows 98 has to have it disabled in its' device manager. If it was disabled in BIOS then I don't think it should work anywhere. You can try detecting new hardware or see if you can go thru control panel
/system/devices / diskdrives/ and see if there is an error showing up there or if the floppy doesn't exist there. In which case I think you're back to detect new hardware. It might work better if you turn the computer offf, open the case, touch the frame to of the case to equalize the static electricity between you and the pc, remove the ribbon cable from the floppy drive, power the computer on, let it boot cleanly, shut it back down, reattach the ribbon cable to the floppy and power back on. Hopefully it will then recognize the fact you have new hardware.
Good luck

The driver for the floppy disk controller may need to be reinstalled,check the device manager to see if their is a yellow exclamation mark besides the floppy drive and then troubleshoot from there

I had a similar problem with a Sony FDD, it was faulty. Anyway worth to try other known good FDD first.

Somehow your Device Manager is either not loading the correct drive for your device (your Fdd) or it has been just disable on your windows.
The first workout should be go to your Device Manager and make sure it has not been disabled, or check if there is more than one device as Fdd, or check if you have a yellow question mark.
If yellow ? is found then go to your mainboard manufacturer and download its correct driver, otherwise enable it on your Device manager.

Good luck,

@lberto
alberto@pancarib.com

in the device manager there is no yellow quotation(!) mark and there is also no question mark next to the disk drive\generic NEC floppy disk or floppy disk controller\standard floppy disk controller and in device status -it state that the device isworking properly.

well from my research (not tecnically or academically) some said it is because the driver file with are used in win98 that is hsflop.pdr a 32 bit (or is it Byte)maybe have incompatible with the drive manufacturer.but the question is it work fine before this? make me puzzled.i don't want to reinstall or clean install win98 because i don't have extra hdisk to backup the data and valuable program (tonne of it)and i still in have to used the drive in safe mode and restart to edit anyting in normal mode....

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What is the make and model of your PC, if it is a dell or HP, they have fixes for that issue on their websites, Also Mcafee will stop the floppy drive from working in windows..

Hope this helps

well thanks for all the answer , but in my case it wont't help me...
i'm closing the question

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