Subj : Re: Hmmmm, Where is the floppy drive in XP? To : All From : james@nospam.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:21 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.o rg!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: james@nospam.com Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Hmmmm, Where is the floppy drive in XP? Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:05:03 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 77 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: TKghX/mglWkVW1qxlGBsyg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134535 On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:57:37 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: >In message , >gfretwell@aol.com writes: >>On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 06:27:43 -0600, james@nospam.com wrote: >> >>>I'm not used to having a floppy drive on an XP machine. >>>I plugged in a NEW floppy drive, which I just got in the mail. I used >>>that twist cable which I mentioned. (twist on drive end), and connected >>>the power cable. Everything is plugged in properly. >>> >>>I am not seeing the A: drive in My Computer. >>> >>>I am not sure where else it should show up. >>> >>>I confirmed this drive works by plugging it into the existing cables >>>connected to the internal floppy drive and it works fine. I read, wrote >>>and formatted a floppy. > >To clarify: your computer already had a floppy drive, and connecting the >new drive in its place, works. So how are you connecting it when it >_doesn't_ work, presumably with the (new?) cable-with-a-twist you >mention? To the same place on the motherboard as the existing one? If >the existing one has a cable with no twist, which side of the twist are >you connecting? Once again, you are not listening to what I said. The drive works fine on my WIN98 computer, using the cable inside that computer. It DOES NOT work on my XP computer.\ Two entirely different computers! >>> >>>In XP, I went to control panel, hardware, and I can see the floppy >>>listed. It says it's working fine. >>> >>>I went to the command line, and typed A: >>>It says "Invalid drive specification". > >Even with a (formatted OK) floppy in? Yes >>> >>>The only thing I can think is that maybe that cable is defective??? >>> >(Possibly, though I'd have thought it wouldn't show in control panel. >Does it show a drive letter there [I presume you mean Device Manager]? Yes >Does it show a drive letter for C: there?) Yes, as well as D: (CD drive) and other letters if I plug in any USB sticks. >> >>5 wire twist or 7 wire twist? >>Do you have the power cable plugged it? >I did wonder that too (-: > >>Did you boot the machine? >>Does it spin on the boot? >Good question: many BIOSes have a setting for whether it should try the >floppy on boot; turning it off saves time (and arguably wear on the >drive, though minimal). Though if there's something about that setting >that's stopping it working, I'd have expected it to stop the existing >one working, hence the question re how you're connecting the new one. > >Does its light flash - on boot? When you try to access it? At any other >time? No --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .