floppy drive in DOS

[DR]

I have an Alton M571 mb with an AMD K-6/2 processor. It has a SiS 5597 chipset. The problem I have is with the floppy drive. It works fine in windows (95B). But when I boot
it up or access it from DOS it has assorted error messages, sector not found, data error,and general failure. I found that I can sometimes read it if I push in on the disk just right. I have checked BIOS and the A drive is selected and floppy swap is disabled. I have also checked the cables but as I said I can write to and read it from windows.
Does any one have any ideas as to the problem? Thanks

[Larommi]

You said that if you pushed the disk in just right it would read. I think at this point I would try a new drive.

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I always do what the voices in my head tell me!

[BadCache]

I think the reason it reads in windows is because it tries a little longer to access the disk. If you have ever tried to read from the adrive you will notice it runs a while before you get an error message. If you try it in dos you get an error message faster. I agree with the last poster. Try a different drive.

[format c:]

Ya try a new drive, Floppy drives are cheap and the heads on your drive could be out of alignment and the cost of repairing the heads would be more than a new drive

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Format c: