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Floppy Drive Problem

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by loopyh Apr 24, 2001 last reply May 28, 2001 1 view

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We have a hybrid notebook that when you try to read from the a: drive comes back that the disc is unformated even when the disk has been used in that drive numerous times and can be read from the a: drive of other machines, any ideas how to resolve this ? (OS is Win98SE).

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by vertex Apr 24, 2001

Looks like a hardware problem. Try cleaning the floppy drive and if that don't work, have it replaced.

by loopyh May 28, 2001

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by loopyh Apr 25, 2001

Mmm I was afraid it might be that

Thanx

by dmiles Apr 25, 2001

Sounds like the floppy heads are misaligned,try cleaning the heads and starting with a new disk,insert in drive and reformat the floppy.
Replace the floppy if neccessary

by loopyh May 28, 2001

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by stef gerber Apr 25, 2001

jup, seen this one before!
borrow a floppy drive and ribbon cable from a friend. test both. it is either the ribbon cable or the floppy disk controller.
The drive cant recognize the FAT of the disk.