Floppy Drive Troubles (Help?)

Hi. =D

I'm having a bit of a problem with my floppy drive. This problem occurs in both Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Here's what happens: I can put a floppy disk into the drive, and it'll read it fine. However, when I take that disk out, put another, different disk in, Windows doesn't refresh the drive. When I click on the "A:/" drive, it opens the window and lists the files that were on the old floppy disk.

Right now, the only way I can read a different disk is to reboot the machine. =(

Is it some sort of Windows setting that I've never heard of? Any information or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Boot to dos in windows 2000 - then see if the same symptons appear in DOS... if they do you may have something wrong in the bios settings, if they don't then perhaps updating the motherboard drivers would help.

It does indeed do it in DOS...But it doesn't do it in Windows 98se. o_O

What settings in my BIOS should I change/check to be sure they are correct?

If it doesn't do it in Win98Se and does do it in the higher versions it sounds like and upgrade problem. I would delete this problem and relist in the Win2k or WinXP section.

Don't we all wish it was that easy to just "delete" the problem :)

I think he meant the thread. :D ;)

It does the same thing in DOS though. Windows 98se is the exception to the rule in this case. One thing I will note is this: In Windows 98se, I had everything installed and running perfectly until I installed my soundcard (which was the last piece of hardware I installed). Not only did the installation fail three times (it's a SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum Ex), but when it finally finished, the sound wouldn't work. I had to install the updated drivers from www.soundblaster.com to get it to work. And as soon as I did THAT, my video adapter/card wouldn't work right (and still isn't). It keeps telling me my display adapter isn't properly installed and or the drivers aren't current--which isn't right because I have the latest drivers from nvidia (it's a GeForce2 Ultra).

*sigh*

Sounds like an IRQ issue.

Just had my friends floppy do much the same thing, It could not read in Windows but OK In a dos box
When it did read in Windows it would not refresh when you changed floppies
I tried another floppy drive and it worked flawlessly, Retested the suspect drive and when I changed floppies and clicked refresh it did not refresh and I got weird characters for file names
Try another floppy drive, This drive was messing up the system a bit, It workes better with the new drive in
BTW the OS was Windows 98 SE on an Asus a7v333 with and Athlon XP cooled by a Volcano 9 ( Lots of fun cranking it up )

Broken floppy cable.

[Finally shows the one thing he learnt whilst doing A+]

Or bad floppy not sending the disk change signal. Required for everything above the 360K 5.25". Try another floppy and cable.

~Chris

Bad floppy drive. o_O


One more question on an entirely different note: How do you get Windows (XP/2000) to change the IRQ's of your hardware?!? I have ten components sharing IRQ 9! =( Is there ANY way to get that to change? I tried taking everything out and putting everything in different slots, but it still assigned everything to IRQ 9; including my onboard Promise ATA/100 controllers, which REALLY slows their performace--so much so in fact that my regular IDE connection is faster.

Any advice?

Thanks! =)

I think the quote from ms would be "This behaviour is by design"

You can set irqs, but you would have to turn off acpi and reload using a standard hal (press f5 when it says press f6) and choose standard computer.

If your computer works fine with acpi and irq sharing, then leave well alone. As for the promise controller problem, I would look at whether DMA is being used by XP and check for a driver update. Also check the pci slot the controller is in, what onboard stuff does that slot share with? Check your mobo manual for details as to what slot shares with what.

put in a new cable, delete the floppy drive from windows, reboot and reinstall. see if it still happens. Sounds like a windows problem if it's working in 98 and not 2000. I'd start with removing it from device manager, and possibly even unhooking it completely, then reboot and reinstall. Good luck.

I have had the same problem, when I put a second floppy disk in the drive I still see the file list from the first floppy disk. My local guru said that I needed to replace that old floppy drive for a new one for a cost of $30. I did that and now everything works fine. My local guru said that this is because the old floppy drive was "too slow" for windows XP.