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Floppy drive problem with Win2K

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by kcmeister 1 view

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Have had multiple computers that give the error message: disk not formatted. Would you like to format now? The floppy disks are known good. The majority of the time, if reboot pc, floppy works fine. Sometimes is necessary to replace floppy drive. One out of 20 computers get this error message. I would like to find out if there are any known issues and fixes for the problem. Only happens with Win2K. We are spending way too much time on this issue. Here is a sample of one of the pc's components:
Intel D815EEAA MB with onboard video and sound.
Pentium III 800 MHz
128 MB SDRAM
30 GB SEAGATE HD
HP CD-RW 9340I
** TEAC 1.44 MB FLOPPY **
3COM ETHERLINK 10/100 PCI NIC CARD
CREATIVE SOUNDBLASTER-PCI
ATI ACP 32MB RAGE FURY PRO VIVO
WINDOWS 2000 PROFESSIONAL
any Help would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance
kcmeister

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by raffi_

First, you may just be a victim of the very common drive alignment problem. What is the source of the floppies? Same machine? Some drives are not very tolerant of drive alignment errors so disks written by one (slightly out of alignment) cannot be read by another.

I cannot find any issues regarding your setup and floppy disks. You have good quality hardware!

Anything showing up in the Event Log for the problem machines?

Run a virus scan on the affected machines if you haven't already.
Make SURE that all of your cards are FULLY seated into their respective slots and ALL cables are securely attached. A 'loose' card can cause all kinds of weird havoc.

We use the TEAC drive in all of our installs and, aside from the odd DOA unit, find them quite good.

regards
Raffi_

by jesselou

go to your system info then in the components choose problem device if no problem device restart computer and go to your bios choose drive c as your first boot device.

by kcmeister

Virus scan up to date, event log does not show any problems, all cables and cards are fully seated. Fresh installs of os and re-image has no effect. I will check into the drive alignment issue.

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