Hmm. Floppy still dead. Suggestions?

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Peter E. Fry

I've looked around, and found a few folks with the same problem, but
no (cause and no) solutions. Got a shiny new motherboard, using an old
new floppy drive (which worked fine on a previous system); the fdc
driver/service/whatever has an unhappy entry in the registry
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Services -> Fdc ->
Enum -> INITSTARTFAILED = 1). The floppy works fine under the BIOS -- I
can boot the system off it, for instance. I don't see any odd BIOS
settings related to it, either. Windows just doesn't like it. (An
earlier Linux installation could see it.)
Any ideas?

Peter E. Fry
 
Did you check your motherboard maker's driver update?
can you try to update your floppy disk controller?
(or apply all updated software for your motherboard from manufacture web site)
 
I have had a lot of problems with exact same thing, quite
erratic.

win2K would suggest that FD was absent or that the disk
needed to be formatted or the disk could not be recognised.
It may have something to do with the application that wrote
the floppy initially. (this response was not limited to one
floppy drive but nearly always an old drive in a new setup)

Probably for the few dollars it would be worth a new floppy

Geoff
 
JR said:
Did you check your motherboard maker's driver update?
can you try to update your floppy disk controller?
(or apply all updated software for your motherboard from manufacture web site)
Click to expand...

Not much there. I did load the latest BIOS -- it fixed some early
oddities. I haven't run into any documentation that would indicate that
this is a common (or at least consistent) issue.

Peter E. Fry
 
Geoffw said:
I have had a lot of problems with exact same thing, quite
erratic.

win2K would suggest that FD was absent or that the disk
needed to be formatted or the disk could not be recognised.
It may have something to do with the application that wrote
the floppy initially. (this response was not limited to one
floppy drive but nearly always an old drive in a new setup)

Probably for the few dollars it would be worth a new floppy
Click to expand...

The diskette, the drive, or the controller? The fdc service is what's
failing; the drive, controller, and diskettes themselves all appear to
work fine. I can try another drive, just to be thorough, but there
really isn't much that the drive can do to affect the controller.

Peter E. Fry
 
Eh, I never did solve it. So I bypassed it with a $20 LS-120 off
eBay. So odd, and so nice to have Win2k3 detect the LS-120 and enable
it; and detect newly-enabled IDE channel with the old DVD drive, enable
it, and reassign its old drive letter.

Peter E. Fry
 
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