i bought this floppy drive:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16821152005

i installed it, and windows will not detect it. its an OEM, so there were no drivers included...
i went into control panel and clicked on 'add hardware'. it wont come up on that... it seems that windows is not able to find it. a green light appears on my floppy drive when i start it up... its not installed for some reason. do i need some drivers for it?

Does your BIOS Setup detect it?

i just fixed it....

i went into my cmos and found out that the floppy drive was disabled...
so i enabled it

it works fine now

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Originally Posted by t260g

when i try to save gfx card bios info onto this floppy, it says: 'there is no disk in drive A'.

do you think its a DOA?

.

A lot of floppy ideas here:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...+floppy+drives

Can you get the drive to work at all? Will it recognize any floppy? Will it format a floppy?

no it wont. i need to format the floppy to flash my bios... that is the whole reason why i bought the floppy in the first place. i know its not a problem with the floppy disk, it worked on another computer...

the only thing i can think of is its a bad floppy, the ribbon cable is fine, it was brand new, and windows detected it, so i think it should be fine... ill try a different ribbon cable... otherwise, this is porbably a faulty drive...

Did you check the Device Manager?

Will it not recognize any floppy?

If you insert floppy and then try to send to it what error do you get?

Insert disk?

yeah... it basically says there is no disk in the drive when there is one...

device manager says "floppy disk controllers"... it appears there

i have a pack of 50 floppies, ive tried several different floppies, it wont detect any of them

I see in searching this idea:

Try to boot a floppy boot disk (any one).

In a working XP machine with floppy drive you can right click under My Computer A: and choose Create an MS-DOS boot disk. Or else: http://bootdisk.com/

The idea is that if the drive does not respond to a boot disk then most likely the drive is faulty.


Of course assuming that the floppy is set to boot first in the BIOS.