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Different Floppy disk show same data

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by qb4006

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I have an issue where the floppy disk on my PC shows the same data even when i put in different floppys. It won't "refresh" I tried closing the "A" drive window and reopening it with different floppys but it shows the same data.

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by dryflies

Press the F5 key after inserting the new floppy. If that does not work, check it on another computer to makie sure the floppies are not identical.

by willcomp

Floppy drives (FDD) provide a "change line" signal signifying that a diskette has been changed. That should occur any time a disk is removed and replaced with another.

Failure to recognize the disk change can be caused by a faulty FDD or by FDD driver not reading the change line signal.

The symptoms are exactly what you are experiencing.

Try using F5 per above response to refresh after change. If that doesn't work, try removing and re-installing FDD driver in Device Manager.

If still no luck, then try another floppy drive.

Dalton

by honu95

I would say to replace the cable first. I think the 34th wire on the cable is the drive cahnge signal that allows the computer to know if there's a new disk in there. Are there any bent pins or damaged part of the cable?

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