floppy drive probs advice please??????????

[shez]

Thanx for having a gander at my little problemi have just had my hard drive reformatted and also bought a new floppy drive as the last one seemed to have problems, anyway when i try to save to floppy drive i get this message<BR><BR>A: IS NOT ACCESSIBLE<BR>THE DEVICE IS NOT READY<BR><BR>now i no my floppy drive has power as the light comes on and i hear the click as it accesses it when i ask to save only that message comes up so any help will be appreciated also i have double checked the connections and they are seated right.

[CHE]

It sounds like one of the following:<BR><BR>1. Your floppy cable is dead. Try a new one. This is the most likely problem.<BR>2. Your new floppy drive is dead (this has happened to me, brand new)<BR>3. Your diskettes are defective.<BR>4. You have a boot sector virus.<BR><BR><i>"also i have double checked the connections and they are seated right."</i><BR><BR>Flip it. Flip the cable over at the connector with the floppy (not at the connector with the motherboard). There are floppy drives out there with upside-down connectors on them, some even have a notch cut on the wrong edge (top vs. bottom). It's worth a shot, it won't hurt anything. At least it never hurt anything on any of mine <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"><BR><BR>Actually, this doesn't sound like this is your problem, though, because you say the drive attempts to access the diskette at the proper time.. <BR>

[Juan]

If the floppy drive light stays on all the time it could be the cable is backwards on the floppy drive or the connection on the motherboard.

[Avid6eek]

What do you need a floppy drive for anyways?