Getting a "diskette drive 0 seek failure when I boot my pc

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Getting a "diskette drive 0 seek failure when I boot my pc, it tells me to
select F1 to continue or F2 to run setup.I have windows 2000 with SP-4
installed. What is causing this and how do I fix this? Thanks.
 
It sounds like a hardware failure rather than software. I guess (by the
F1/F2 prompt) that you are getting this message just after it has gone
through POST checks (memory checks etc) before Windows starts to boot?

If so, it sounds like you have a faulty floppy disk drive. You could try
disabling it within the BIOS and seeing if that helps, if you still have
a problem try disconnecting the floppy drive.

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Posted At: 01 December 2005 15:07
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Subject: Getting a "diskette drive 0 seek failure when I boot my pc

Getting a "diskette drive 0 seek failure when I boot my pc, it tells me
to
select F1 to continue or F2 to run setup.I have windows 2000 with SP-4
installed. What is causing this and how do I fix this? Thanks.
 
That is a POST (Power On Self Test) error and happens before the
operating system loads, in other words it isn't a Windows 2000 error but
a hardware error. Does the pc boot successfully after the error? Does
the diskette drive work properly, can you read and copy files to it? In
all likelihood the diskette drive might be "kaput". If you have a
hardware diagnostic utility for the pc run it and see what it reports.
If the drive is bad just replace it with a new one, they're inexpensive
and easy to replace.

John
 
Typically there's a BIOS setting to ENABLE/DISABLE Bootup Floppy Seek. Set
it to DISABLE and your problem will go away.
 
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