Ok, Bingo! I went into BIOS and reset the order of the floppy drive from 4th
place to 1st place. The order used to be removable drive, hard drive, CD-ROM
drive, and then network boot drive or something close to network boot drive,
which I figured out was the floppy drive. So now the order is network boot
drive, hard drive, CD-ROM drive, and then removable drive. I saved it in BIOS
and then the drive recognized my first floppy diskette.
One thing though, I busted the button that you push to remove the diskette
from the floppy. Figured, if something can go wrong, it will go wrong.
I wondering if I can send away for a front panel from HP. The PC was a HP
pavilion 503n. So I figure HP must have a front plate for this PC case?
Well, now I know when I change a floppy drive I might have to go into BIOS
if I'm having problems and configure something.
Thanks, attilathehun1
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attilathehun1


"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:530FA91B-6AED-44C2-BC92-0EE84819697D@microsoft.com...
> > No, they are not new floppies, they old ones with data already on them.
> > You
> > think by replacing the old floppy drive that I might have to go into BIOS
> > and
> > configure the new floppy drive (A)? There is only one spot for a floppy
> > and
> > there isn't even a spot for a zip drive. I would have to get a new case if
> > I
> > wanted to put more than one floppy drive or a zip drive in this PC.
> > When I first installed the new drive it said couldn't format the diskette.
> > The green light did come on also. Now though I'm getting no light at all.
> > And
> > I don't even get an option to eject when I right click on the drive icon
> > in
> > My Computer when a diskette is in it.
> > Thanks, attilathejun
> > --
> > attilathehun1
>
> How did you go with the simple floppy boot test?
>
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