We fought exactly the same issue two months ago.  The problem is with
the case interfering with the correct positioning of the floppy when you
insert it in the drive.  If the floppy drive is mounted flush against
the case front, the floppy will not completeley drop into place due to
interference from the case front.  This results in either the floppy
will not being recognized or being recognized but you will not be able
to read or format it.  The corrective action is to SLIGHTLY back away
the drive from the case front.  This will resolve the problem and the
drive will be happy as a hog in swill.

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From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Uncle Richard
Sent: April 7, 2002 11:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] New XP Box


Two weeks back I asked you good folk about my new XP box freezing.  I'd
like to thank those who replied. Unfortunately I am writing this on my
new machine and cannot thank you personally by name - my apologies. One
person gave me concise instruction on reinstalling XP. Where followed
these intructions, and they worked.

Subsequently. we I experineced a malfunction with my floopy drive. It
could/would not read the disks. I assumed that it was either a faulty or
incorrectly placed cable. It proved to be neither.

After changing both the cable and the floppy drive we (the box was still
under warranty so I let the tech do all the work) could still not get
any disks read. In the end in appears that it was either the position or
the angle of the drive in the case. Once we had position the drive
correctly it worked perfectly.It took us over three hours to fortuiously
reached this solution.

Has anyone else struck this peculiar problem? Can anyone explain what
exactly is happening here?

Thanks again for all your good advice.

Richard Innes
Auckland New Zealand
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