I had this same problem for about a month before I found that in my BIOS the FDC or Floppy disk controller was set to "disabled". I don't know how it happened but it took me a long time to find out. I had tried 2 other floppy drives, 2 other IDE cables and different power connectors. I then went through the BIOS checking thoroughly each item until I found that the Controller was disabled. I hope this helps. Carol After doing some work inside of my pc my floppy drive is no longer working. The power light will not go of and when I try to access the drive I get the following error message. A:\ is not accessible The device is not ready. retry or cancel. I am getting power and I have rechecked the ribbon time and time again. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Francisco PCBUILD's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>