FD-10 Floppy Drive

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Dave Regan

I have an old FD-10 Amstrad floppy drive that I am trying
to use to access some old games on 5.25" floppies.
I have dismantled the drive from it's external case and
removed the caling leaving a standard 4 pin power socket
and a 34 way pcb connector. I have used a standard FDD
cable tp connect the drive, picked it up in the BIOS and
Windows XP recognises the 5.25" drive. But every time I
try to access it, I get not accessible errors saying
there is an I/O problem. Can anyone help ??
 
Accepting that it recognizes the type of drive is not indicative that it
will be able to read/write to it.. the format of the disk that you wish to
copy may also not be readable by a pc..

I wish that I could be of more help, but I dumped all of my old stuff years
ago and can't try to duplicate what you are doing.. Good luck anyway..
 
Dave,

Windows XP will read and write to standard 5.25" floppy disks in 1.2 MB
and 360 KB sizes with a compatible drive.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309623

I do not think the old Amstrad floppy drive is a standard 5.25" floppy
drive. I had an old Amstrad computer and most of its components would not
work in a slightly newer PC compatible computer. Is this a 360KB drive
which, of course, won't read 1.2 MB floppies?

If the floppy disk has a reinforcement ring at the inside hole, it is a
360KB floppy. If the floppy's inside hole is smooth with the surface of the
rest of the disk this is a 1.2 MB floppy.

Make sure that your cable is placed on the drive the correct way. Many
of the old floppy drives had the stripe on the drive cable AWAY from the
power connector, unlike the hard drive cables which have the stripe next to
the power connector.

Good luck!
 
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