Floppy drive isn't recognized by Win2k with New FDD cable

**Dax_Brandy** · April 16th, 2003, 11:48 AM

hmmm... this is strange. i bought a rounded fdd cable and replaced my old rounded cable. the new cable has three terminals which i supposed one is for connecting to the mobo and the two, for A (at the end most of the cable and B drive (at the center). when i booted into win2k and test the drive (inserted a good floppy), explorer has this message "Please insert disk into drive A". tried other floppy same problem. but when i booted to Win98, no problem encountered. i was able to browse the contents of the drive.

is there something wrong with my cable or what?
please help.

dax

**Marvinator** · April 16th, 2003, 02:43 PM

In a very rare instance, I had one cable that had the A and B connectors switched. Try using the other connectior and see if there us any difference.

**Dax_Brandy** · April 16th, 2003, 07:32 PM

marvinator,

i've tried connecting to the other conntector. still same problem. POST can detect the floppy but could not be read by win2k only. win98 has no problem with that.

dax

**Super_Saiyan** · April 17th, 2003, 03:23 PM

Does Win2K recognize the drive exists? If so can you format a floppy using 2K, copy some files to it and try to read it? Were the disks you know to be good formatted while using 98 or 2K? I know they both format the floppy as FAT, but i have had problems in the past where we used 98/NT40/2K workstations that are right along these lines..98 could read a disk, NT would tell me that the disk did not contain a recognizable file system, and 2K would do nothing.

**Dax_Brandy** · April 18th, 2003, 01:48 AM

super_saiyan,

i used a good formatted disk. formatted using 98.
anyways, i get back to the old rounded cable and everything is back to normal. maybe i should get back to the shop and refund my money.

dax

**jerrygarcia** · April 19th, 2003, 10:34 AM

I ran across something similar to this a while back. My floppy would run fine with the flat ribbon cable but not the 10" rounded cable that I bought. I bought another cable thinking I had a bad cable. More thought and I went back to the floppy, it was a pull from an old machine I thought I would just reuse. I also used the ribbon that it was on originally.

After months of trying back and forth, I replaced floppy drive and everything fixed itself. Old fdd? Is it a pull from another machine? Do the connections ever change from old to new?