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by pclarke

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I have a floppy drive in a system (AMD k6-500) which gives a read error. I changed the floppy drive, the floppy drive cable, checked the Device driver and still when I try to read or perform any action on the floppy drive the system says that the drive is not formatted. If you try format a disk it does not do it. The system is running Windows ME. What could be the problem?

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by hootie14

Try the Floppy drive on another PC to rule out the Floppy being the problem. If the floppy is a good one, it works on another machine, you should start checking out your Motherboard. The floppy disk controller may be bad.

by stolson

try this ...

First, check the BIOS setting. Make sure the floppy drive type is correct.

Start the system in safe mode, command prompt.
Try and access the a: drive. If it doesn't work, you have a bad floppy controller. If it works, the Windows driver is corrupt. Go to Device Manager and remove the floppy drive. Reboot, and you should see the drive rediscovered. See if it works.

Let me know if this helps,
Steve Olson

by sprinter79boy

clean your floppy drive using cleaning disk. u can also remove the floppy drive on your pc and remove the dust on it and spray it with contact cleaner.

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