- Floppy Drive
- Posted by S Murder on October 25th, 2005
I installed a floppy drive and it won't show up in My Computer.
- Posted by Yves Leclerc on October 25th, 2005
It needs to be defined in the computer's BIOS first. Is it defined?
"S Murder" <SMurder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I installed a floppy drive and it won't show up in My Computer.
- Posted by S Murder on October 25th, 2005
How do I do that? I did set both drive A and B in the BIOS to be floppy
drives, but no floppy shows up at all in My Computer.
"Yves Leclerc" wrote:
> It needs to be defined in the computer's BIOS first. Is it defined?
>
>
> "S Murder" <SMurder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A0C59521-989D-4CBD-AE12-25F524C16126@microsoft.com...
> >I installed a floppy drive and it won't show up in My Computer.
>
>
>
- Posted by NotMe on October 25th, 2005
Is it an internal floppy? USB Floppy?
Does it show under Disk management?
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"S Murder" <SMurder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How do I do that? I did set both drive A and B in the BIOS to be floppy
> drives, but no floppy shows up at all in My Computer.
>
>
> "Yves Leclerc" wrote:
>
>> It needs to be defined in the computer's BIOS first. Is it defined?
>>
>>
>> "S Murder" <SMurder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A0C59521-989D-4CBD-AE12-25F524C16126@microsoft.com...
>> >I installed a floppy drive and it won't show up in My Computer.
>>
>>
>>
- Posted by Plato on October 25th, 2005
=?Utf-8?B?UyBNdXJkZXI=?= wrote:
>
> I installed a floppy drive and it won't show up in My Computer.
If you have only one floppy drive. Make sure in the bios you only have
A: set to a 1.44
If you only have one floppy drive and a 3 conncector cable, put the
drive at the end of the cable.
Most often, pin one on the cable is next to the power connector.
- Posted by Frank on October 26th, 2005
>> "S Murder" <SMurder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A0C59521-989D-4CBD-AE12-25F524C16126@microsoft.com...
>> >I installed a floppy drive and it won't show up in My Computer.
> "Yves Leclerc" wrote:
>
>> It needs to be defined in the computer's BIOS first. Is it defined?
"S Murder" <SMurder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5EB36423-8685-48FD-B165-6F6CEB007666@microsoft.com...
> How do I do that? I did set both drive A and B in the BIOS to be floppy
> drives, but no floppy shows up at all in My Computer.
Red stripe to pin 1 on floppy.
Standard CMOS features set drive A to the appropriate setting for your
drive.
Check further in your BIOS for *enable onboard FDD support*.
- Posted by S Murder on October 26th, 2005
I've done everything everyone said to, and still no luck.
Also, there's only one way the cable fits into the floppy drive, so I'm not
sure how the position of pin 1 matters.
"Plato" wrote:
> =?Utf-8?B?UyBNdXJkZXI=?= wrote:
> >
> > I installed a floppy drive and it won't show up in My Computer.
>
> If you have only one floppy drive. Make sure in the bios you only have
> A: set to a 1.44
>
> If you only have one floppy drive and a 3 conncector cable, put the
> drive at the end of the cable.
>
> Most often, pin one on the cable is next to the power connector.
>
>
- Posted by NobodyMan on October 27th, 2005
Believe me, it's very easy to reverse the data cable so that pin1 is
in the wrong place.
Mayber you are mistaking the data cable for the power cable? It is
hard to mess that up, although I have seen it done.
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:39:11 -0700, "S Murder"
<SMurder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I've done everything everyone said to, and still no luck.
>Also, there's only one way the cable fits into the floppy drive, so I'm not
>sure how the position of pin 1 matters.
>
>
>"Plato" wrote:
>
>> =?Utf-8?B?UyBNdXJkZXI=?= wrote:
>> >
>> > I installed a floppy drive and it won't show up in My Computer.
>>
>> If you have only one floppy drive. Make sure in the bios you only have
>> A: set to a 1.44
>>
>> If you only have one floppy drive and a 3 conncector cable, put the
>> drive at the end of the cable.
>>
>> Most often, pin one on the cable is next to the power connector.
>>
>>
- Posted by S Murder on October 27th, 2005
Well, there's only 2 ends to the data cable, and it has a notch on both ends
that only allow it to be connected one way, so the only thing I could do
differently is reverse the cable, which I already did.
"NobodyMan" wrote:
> Believe me, it's very easy to reverse the data cable so that pin1 is
> in the wrong place.
>
> Mayber you are mistaking the data cable for the power cable? It is
> hard to mess that up, although I have seen it done.
>
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:39:11 -0700, "S Murder"
> <SMurder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I've done everything everyone said to, and still no luck.
> >Also, there's only one way the cable fits into the floppy drive, so I'm not
> >sure how the position of pin 1 matters.
> >
> >
> >"Plato" wrote:
> >
> >> =?Utf-8?B?UyBNdXJkZXI=?= wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I installed a floppy drive and it won't show up in My Computer.
> >>
> >> If you have only one floppy drive. Make sure in the bios you only have
> >> A: set to a 1.44
> >>
> >> If you only have one floppy drive and a 3 conncector cable, put the
> >> drive at the end of the cable.
> >>
> >> Most often, pin one on the cable is next to the power connector.
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
- Posted by Plato on October 27th, 2005
NobodyMan wrote:
>
> Believe me, it's very easy to reverse the data cable so that pin1 is
> in the wrong place.
Not if the cable and both slots are keyed.
- Posted by S Murder on October 27th, 2005
Thank you!
Well, I needed the floppy drive to make a boot disk, but I ended up making
one somewhere else, so I guess I can figure this all out later.
"Plato" wrote:
> NobodyMan wrote:
> >
> > Believe me, it's very easy to reverse the data cable so that pin1 is
> > in the wrong place.
>
> Not if the cable and both slots are keyed.
>
>
- Posted by NobodyMan on October 28th, 2005
On 26 Oct 2005 22:38:01 -0500, Plato <|@|.|> wrote:
>NobodyMan wrote:
>>
>> Believe me, it's very easy to reverse the data cable so that pin1 is
>> in the wrong place.
>
>Not if the cable and both slots are keyed.
I've still seen cables, keyed or not, forced on so pin 1 is in the
wrong place on 1 or both ends. I didn't say it was pretty, just that
I've seen it.
- Posted by Plato on October 28th, 2005
NobodyMan wrote:
>
> >> Believe me, it's very easy to reverse the data cable so that pin1 is
> >> in the wrong place.
> >
> >Not if the cable and both slots are keyed.
>
> I've still seen cables, keyed or not, forced on so pin 1 is in the
> wrong place on 1 or both ends. I didn't say it was pretty, just that
> I've seen it.
Grin. Same goes for the power connector to the floppy drive. Odd that
you really have to bend some metal to get it in upside down.
Before slotted motherboard connects became almost universal it was easy
to miss a row of pins, either the long, or short way. You could look at
it forever and not even notice you missed a row of pins. Luckily,
misconnected data cables for drives hardly ever toast anything.
What always baffled me is how some folks get isa cards into pci slots.
