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Trouble installing a 5.25" disk drive
I have installed a 5.25" floppy disk drive in my computer, but I cannot get
it to work properly, and I hope someone can give me some advice. The disk drive appears as drive B: in "My Computer", but when I try to read a floppy disk, I get a message saying that B: is not accessible, because there is something wrong with an I/O unit. I have checked the BIOS settings and the cable. The mainboard is supposed to support 5.25" disk drives. My computer is an AMD Athlon and I use Windows XP Home Edition. Could anyone please give me some advice on what to do! /Patrik |
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"Patrik Spånning Westerlund" wrote in message
I have installed a 5.25" floppy disk drive in my computer, but I cannot get it to work properly, and I hope someone can give me some advice. The disk drive appears as drive B: in "My Computer", but when I try to read a floppy disk, I get a message saying that B: is not accessible, because there is something wrong with an I/O unit. I have checked the BIOS settings and the cable. The mainboard is supposed to support 5.25" disk drives. My computer is an AMD Athlon and I use Windows XP Home Edition. Could anyone please give me some advice on what to do! /Patrik Move the ribbon cable connector you used for the B: drive onto your 3.5-inch drive (so your A: drive becomes your B: drive, and you have no A: drive). Can you use the 3.5-inch floppy drive okay as B:? If not, you have a hardware problem which mostly points to the cable since the drive worked okay when it was on the other connector and was using the same hardware. If the 3.5-inch drive works as B:, I'd suspect your 5.25-inch drive is dysfunctional, presuming you didn't slide in the connector backwards (some cables use polarized connectors that have a nub in the middle that will match with a slot in the shell on the drive's connector, while some go cheap and use symmetrical connectors without the nub). -- __________________________________________________ __________ ** Share with others. Post replies in the newsgroup. ** If present, remove all "-nix" from my email address. __________________________________________________ __________ |
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