Floppy problems?help!!

[ikeym]

I just put a new computer together and when i insert a floppy disk it says;The disk in drive a is not formatted.When i try to format it says the disk cannot be quick formatted.Then i also click make a startup disk and get this error. An unexpected I/Oerror has occured.I have changed cables,tried the floppy in another computer and it works fine but i cannot get it to work on this one.Floppy drive is also being reconized in the bios.

my system: Amd 1333,128mb ram,gigabyte 7zxe Mb

[ranchdog]

Need to make sure in BIOS (Standard
CMOS Setup) that 1.44Mb, 3.5 in. is
select for Drive A.

Unless, of course, that's not what you
are using.

There are something like 5 different
seletions available.



RD.

[ikeym]

Thanks for your reply Ranchdog.Everything in the bios is set correctly.I'm really puzzeled on this.Any more suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[Fruss Tray Ted]

And started chucking a bunch of floppies into the trash until I noticed that I was trying to format 750 kilobyte floppies when the floppy drive was set to 1.44 megs. I had bought them by mistake.

[YODA74]

hmmm if the disk you are using is damaged??try different disks have you runa good virus scan some virus' such as Stealth_C canscrew around with this.

It could be either the controller, or the software/drivers.What windows you running?

[sleddog]

When you say you "tried the floppy in another computer" do you mean you tried the diskette or the drive?

On a couple occasions I've had a machine refuse to work correctly with the floppy drive even thought it's recognized. As I recall, setting the BIOS to "no floppy", doing a cold restart (power off), letting it boot completely, then restarting again, back into the BIOS, set the floppy correctly, and another cold reboot fixed it :) Technically, this is the "kick in the pants" approach :) You're forcing it to update the ESCD (and you will probably see a message to that effect on bootup after changing floppy parameters). Maybe worth a try; can't hurt.