floppy drive messge says disk not formatted with no disk in drive

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I am experiencing a floppy drive problem, no matter if a disk is formatted or not whenever I try to access a floppy disk I receive an error stating "the disk is not formatted do you wish to format now." I have even tried to access the floppy drive without a disk in the drive which would normally result in a message saying the disk is inaccessible. I still get the disk not formatted error. I have attempted to format the disk when prompted and format will run, but as it reaches the point where it will normally finish I receive a message saying the disk could not be formatted. I have tried a multitude of disks. The floppy will detect and read disks on boot up. This is a W2K machin
these are the actions I have already tried with no succes
1. replaced floppy driv
2. Replaced ribbon cabl
3. Reinstalled windows floppy drive driver
4. uninstalled and reinstalled in the bio
5. manually deleted floppy drivers and copied drivers from resource C
6. Re-installed service pack
7. Installed hard drive in a separate known good computer
If anyone has any ideas, please respond
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Jason said:
I am experiencing a floppy drive problem, no matter if a disk is formatted
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or not whenever I try to access a floppy disk I receive an error stating
"the disk is not formatted do you wish to format now." I have even tried to
access the floppy drive without a disk in the drive which would normally
result in a message saying the disk is inaccessible. I still get the disk
not formatted error. I have attempted to format the disk when prompted and
format will run, but as it reaches the point where it will normally finish I
receive a message saying the disk could not be formatted. I have tried a
multitude of disks. The floppy will detect and read disks on boot up. This
is a W2K machine
these are the actions I have already tried with no success
1. replaced floppy drive
2. Replaced ribbon cable
3. Reinstalled windows floppy drive drivers
4. uninstalled and reinstalled in the bios
5. manually deleted floppy drivers and copied drivers from resource CD
6. Re-installed service pack 4
7. Installed hard drive in a separate known good computer.
If anyone has any ideas, please respond.
5.
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You might have a problem with the floppy drive controller on your
motherboard. Here is how to find out:

1. On some other PC, download and create a Win98 boot disk from
www.bootdisk.com.
2. Boot your problem PC with this disk.
3. Check if you can see the various files & folders on this disk.
4. Have another floppy disk ready, then type this command: format b:

If Steps 2, 3 and 4 above work then you have a Win2000 problem. If any one
of them fails then you have a hardware problem.
 
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