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Not reading Drive A
How do you configure the BIOS to read Drive A:
Drive A: Doesn't respond.
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Drive A: Doesn't respond.
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When you get an error "Drive A: Doesn't respond." you can have one of 4 different problems.
1. Drive is bad
2. Cable is bad or reversed
3. power is disconnected
4. onboard floppy drive controller is bad
1. Drive is bad
2. Cable is bad or reversed
3. power is disconnected
4. onboard floppy drive controller is bad
I found that this worked a couple of times, although maybe it was pure coincidence. My assumption is that Windows has forgotten to recognise your device (maybe an oversimplification).
A 20 second thing to try and maybe, just maybe, it will work. Worth trying before forking out the princely sum of $14 for a replacement to try it. You would pay that for a tecnician to look at it for half an hour then sell you a new one anyway.
Right Click on My Computer (well, actually it's YOUR computer, but you know what I mean)
Select "Properties"
Open the "Performance" tab
"File System" button
"Floppy Sisk" tab.
Checkbox - "Search for a new floppy disk every time Windows starts".
Check it or uncheck it (whatever) and reboot. Do the reverse then reboot.
My feeling was that the very act of changing this setting spurred Windows into recognising it.
This setting hails from a time in computing history when the disk had to be "mounted" and then "unmounted", a bit like Unix or Linux does. It's largely a redundant space filler. (A bit like this comment, I suppose :-)
A 20 second thing to try and maybe, just maybe, it will work. Worth trying before forking out the princely sum of $14 for a replacement to try it. You would pay that for a tecnician to look at it for half an hour then sell you a new one anyway.
Right Click on My Computer (well, actually it's YOUR computer, but you know what I mean)
Select "Properties"
Open the "Performance" tab
"File System" button
"Floppy Sisk" tab.
Checkbox - "Search for a new floppy disk every time Windows starts".
Check it or uncheck it (whatever) and reboot. Do the reverse then reboot.
My feeling was that the very act of changing this setting spurred Windows into recognising it.
This setting hails from a time in computing history when the disk had to be "mounted" and then "unmounted", a bit like Unix or Linux does. It's largely a redundant space filler. (A bit like this comment, I suppose :-)
Found the problem
Power to drive became unplugged DUH!
Power to drive became unplugged DUH!
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ThanQ PL
ThanQ PL
You have just saved yourself about $30 for a technician's acute powers of observation :-) It's happened to all of us.
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This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.