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Dont discount the idea that your disks may be bad. Floppy disks have been around a long time and disks which are more than a couple years old may no longer be readable.
To test this theory, get some new floppies & format them with the new drive. Put some data on there & see if you can retrieve it. If this doesnt work, then yes, you probably have a bad floppy drive (or drives).
Note, it is an easy mistake to make to put the ribbon cable on backwards. If the light on the drive comes on & stays on even when there is no disk, that is a sure sign that the ribbon cable is on backwards.
What else can I help you with?
Do external hard drives need to formated?
Yes
Do portable hard drives work for every laptop?
Not all portable hard drives work with every laptop. Some portable hard drives are formated for specific types of laptops. For example a portable hard drive that is formated for a Mac cannot be used with a windows laptop
How do you format primary hard disk drive in windows?
check the article Formatting disks and drives at microsoft. It should be formated as NTFS
Hierarchical structures does Windows Explorer display?
drives
Which hierarchical structures does window explorer display?
drives
Does the file type arrow display all files on drives and computers?
No it does not.
Why do USB flash drives stop working from write and erase cycles?
USB flash drives will stop working from write and erase cycles when there is a problem with the device.
My disc drives are not working and when I restart the error message comes up Drive 4 not found serial ATA SATA 4 How do I rectify this?
Sounds like either power is not plugged into this unit or your drive has failed.
From the Views button on the Standard Buttons toolbar to display drives and folder in a list format?
Details
What drives people crazy in an office when it isn't working?
Printer !!
Who is the Greek god who drives a chariot of fire?
Apollo, the god of the Sun, drives a chariot of fire
How do you get a hard drive to show up in my computer?
Working drives automatically show up in My Computer on XP. Perhaps it is not working.
