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From: james@nospam.com
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Subject: Re: Hmmmm, Where is the floppy drive in XP?
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:05:03 -0600
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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
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