(Yes, there is a disk in the drive, but that is irrelevant since Windows does not turn the drive on at all. It does however work in DOS, in the BIOS boot-menu, in Windows setup (ie F6 to load drivers), etc.įrom Explorer: Please insert a disk into A-Floppy (A:). That is, when trying to access the A: drive, nothing occurs, no light, no motor, nothing. I hope you guys can help, otherwise this one goes to the scrapper.My (internal) floppy drive does not work in Windows (neither XP nor 7). Some say PCs need BIOS updates to avoid freezing after installing a later OS, I read. But when I install Win95C the PC works great, until I want to use the floppy drive. The PC freezes after I install Windows 98FE or 98SE. Is the floppy controller on the motherboard broken, or is it a driver issue? This is a fresh install of Windows 95C OSR 2.5. It's getting harder and harder to find working 20+ year old Pentium systems. It can also format floppies with no issue either. But it works with no issue when I read blank disks or old disks with files untouched from many years ago. I've swapped out a couple floppy drives and floppy cables but it's not fixing this: Whenever I copy or move files to or from the PC with a floppy disk, the computer instantly freezes and the floppy LED keeps lit and won't turn off. It also has a 2X speed DVD-ROM drive and the 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive. The system has a Pentium 120MHz and 64MB of Simm ram. I have a Gateway 2000 P5-90 desktop I'm trying to fix up.
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