Previously HKEK wrote:
I have had the ribbon cable in/out several times (though I may not
have swapped it out with a known good cable). I am running Windows
98SE.
Short of swabbing motherboards, maybe I can add a separate controller.

If the board has an ISA slot and the on-board floppy controller can be
disabled, then you can do this. Otherwise you cannot.

Arno


"Eric Gisin" wrote in message ...
if you can format in dos but not Win 2K/XP you ran into a well known bug.

"HKEK" wrote in message
m...
| My floppy drive can read disks just fine but it always shows a failure
| whenever I attempt to write to a floppy disk. I have swapped drives
| (using one that I know works on my other computer) but I get the same
| result. Does this indicate a failure of the motherboard/onboard
| controller? What are the other possibilities? -- Thanks in advance for
| any help.

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