Isawa Mitaka

I get the light, but it's not the drive. That was my first thought, but I've swapped the drive with another one in the house. If it were the drive, then the problem should have transferred over to the other system. But the drive that I know is working still locks up my system. The one that I was getting the lock ups on works fine in the other system.

I figured he probably meant floppy cable.Oddly enough, Windows reports the floppy drive as working just fine. It's only when you try to access a disk that the lock happens.I've tried a different floppy drive to no avail, but the cable had completely slipped my mind. Fortunately, I live in a house with 3 systems, so it's no problem... acquiring another cable.

That's a possibility I hadn't tried. Geez, you'd think after working with these buggers for over 20 years, I'd have thought of that. I'll give it a try.:bash

I've got a problem that I hope [b:08e4fd0609]SOMEONE[/b:08e4fd0609] can help me with. My floppy drive under WinME was locking my system whenever I tried to access it. And I mean a total system lock, no mouse or anything. I was hoping that a fesh install of WinXP when I got it would fix the problem. Unfortunately, no go. The reason I'm having trouble tracking down the problem is that when I try and access a disk: In a normal start, the system locks Using msconfig.exe and disabling everything in the selective start, the system locks In Safe Mode, it reads the drive fine Booting from a floppy, it accesses the disk just fine [/list=1] Does anyone have any ideas of what the problem could be? :confused Thanks in advance.