floppy a:\, possibly damaged?

[SkyHi]

Can you

cd a:

??

 

[Apokalipse]

use a different floppy disk
I got the same problem recenty, it turned out to be the disks I was using

 

[SkyHi]

use a different floppy disk

I'm afraid you didn't read his whole post:

so i tried this on 3 other floppys

He's already tried 4 different floppys (ies?)

-SkyHi

 

[SkyHi]

Maybe my logic is flawed, but hey, that's all I got. If you cant repair your current floppy drive by using a new fdd cable, or after cleaning it, don't WASTE money on a new one, and while sony would love everyone to continue using CD's we all know they scratch, break, or just suck. If in worst case scenario you have to buy something look at some zip drives. You can find a 100mb ZIP drive (maybe refurb) for what you'd spend on a new floppy, and zips won't demagnetize and loose info, or get scratched and make you resurface them. Since I got a 750mb zip drive I've had less headaches, and used cd's for nothing more than music. It's far more convenient to edit info than a cd, and when you compare 1.44mb to 100-750mb... do you really need to ponder that? It seems to me that someone had to work really really hard to see the FDD still in use today.

This is of course just my personal opinion, if your differs, you might try to ponder the issue more. j\k

If anything, hope you get that damn a: drive working, good luck.

Can you set your BIOS to boot off the USB (it is USB, right) ZIP drive though?

 

[Apokalipse]

He's already tried 4 different floppys (ies?)

were they from the same box?

 

[SkyHi]

From the same box? What do you mean? It doesn't matter where they're from.

BoobieSrUs : Does the drive make any noises when you try to access it?

-SkyHi

 

[digitaloracle]

On boot, do any lights come on on the drive?
Try putting in your floppy and rebooting. I had a neighbors computer that for some reason would not detect new CD untill I rebooted it. Better still, use another computer to create a bootable floppy of memtest or somethng similar, and see if it boots off it.