3.5 HHD drive problem

  • Thread starter Thread starter xanth
  • Start date Start date
X

xanth

Greetings all,

I have not used my 3.5 drive in about a year or so and found myself needing
it.
I installed a disk and tried to read it.
I got an error message that said

A:\ is not accessible
No ID address mark was found on the floopy disk.

I tried sevral disk all with same problem.

Thanks for your help.
Dave-
 
I have not used my 3.5 drive in about a year or so and found myself needing
it.
I installed a disk and tried to read it.
I got an error message that said

A:\ is not accessible
No ID address mark was found on the floopy disk.

I tried sevral disk all with same problem.
Click to expand...

3.5 drive as in floppy drive ?
In that case, my first guess would be: connector mounted upside
down.
And the very sad attempting to read a floppy while the
drive's connector is upside down often destroys a vital part of
all disks you attempted to read.

But maybe you are lucky and 'only' forgot to connect the power
connector.
 
Thanks for your help,

drive is up and running.

needed it for a Pinewood derby race, we have an old Compac w/o cdrom and its
so old that it was a USB 1.0 ( going back to Win 98 days) so it wont even
find a usb flash drive.

Xanth
 
kony said:
Sometimes it's possible to look at the chipset the drive
controller/adapter uses and find a driver for Win98 that
way, if the manufacturer doesn't offer a driver for '98.
Click to expand...

I've had great success with these Windows 98 Mass Storage drivers:

http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php

You have to be careful and install the version that matches you edition
of Windows 98. I can only vouch for the Windows 98 SE one--it has
worked for a wide variety of thumb drives.
 
Back
Top