Stupid Floppy Drive!!
 

Wat is up my homies-
... Well I built my new pc (hooray)

Athlon 64 3200+
MSI K8n Neo Platinum
1 gig XMS ram
160 gb sata hdd
dvd burner
9800 pro..

ne ways.. they all work fine.. but!

The stupid FLOPPY DRIVE seems to be whack.. I mean My Computer sees it, but any disk I put in, it says it is not formatted and wants to format, and when I try to, it says that the disk cannot be formatted... whats going on?!?! please help..

and plz ask any questions for additional info.. T_T

Ask yourself if you really need a floppy drive. I havn't put one in my last 2 PC's.

well I really dont need it, but its pissing me off that its not working on my beautiful machine.. my machine cant have such a stupid flaw...

AND actually.. I wanna do the 9800 pro to xt flash, and I need the floppy ... :(

So then order another one. Floppy drives are notorious for being unreliable. They haven't really changed in the last 5+ years anyways, I mean, has anyone ever heard of a SATA floppy? Hell no you haven't. I mean, what's 8 bucks plus shipping? That's really all it costs to get a new floppy drive.

but this one's only 2 weeks old!.. can it go wrong that quickly.. cuz it worked before.. and suddenly since like yesterday it stopped working

Yeah, it's entirely possible. One of my first computers was a gateway and the FDD crapped out on it within a week.

just to make sure, I switched floppys with my other pc, and it worked.. T_T you were right.. blitzkriegmcanon (damn thats hard).. its broke already.. argghh

thanks for the help..

sometimes floppy's through the XP interface are squirrley (I'm assuming you're running XP of course..)

when in doubt, open a command prompt and list the directory of A that way. I've had the GUI tell me the disk needs formatting, but then through command I could see and manipulate the files that existed.

worked for me thank you mikec

ahaha nice! not only did you search, but found the answer from a few months ago.

if this forum had a karma hack installed, you'd be getting some +'s from me hehehe. sweet!

Many a time, your floppy drive's rotor will be different than another computer, therefore, the disk may read fine on the drive a disk was written on, and may not even read at all on another. You can buy a diagnostic disk that can straighten it out for you, but it's cheaper to replace the drive.

I've installed several floppy drives that were DOA...seems to happen quite a bit, at least to me ;)

Since their usage has waned, they aren't as good as they used to be. They are manufactured cheaply now.