If you are successful in booting off the floppy, then you will know your
floppy drive is fine (which means you will need to fix your problem via
Windows). If not, then you know you have a hardware issue, so you would
need to recheck connections or check your BIOS settings or replace your
floppy drive.


attilathehun1 wrote:
> Why would I want to try and boot my PC with a Win98 bootdisk, when
> it's running Windows XP Home edition and there is nothing wrong with
> my PC. It's the floppy drive that I'm having the problem with.
> Maybe I'm missing something here. I would greatly appreciate if you
> filled me in on what your getting to. I might learn a great lesson
> here from you. Thanks,
> attilathehun1
>
>>
>> "attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:0414628A-C698-4924-AA11-286AE8DF87FC@microsoft.com...
>>> I replaced a faulty floppy drive with a new floppy drive. When I go
>>> to device
>>> manager it says the drive is working properly. It doesn't recognize
>>> floppies
>>> though. I put a floppy disc into it and it says to " please insert a
>>> floppy
>>> disc into A drive". There is already a floppy disc into A drive and
>>> it gives
>>> that message with any floppy that I put into it. Why is it not
>>> recognizing floppies? It ejects a floppy normally.
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>> Thanks,
>>> attilathehun1 --
>>> attilathehun1
>>
>> Can you boot the machine with a Win98 boot diskette
>> from www.bootdisk.com?