re: Problems accessing floppy disc drives Friday, November 4, 2005 at 4:28 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steve Dunn (925 messages posted) Nigel (tried replying to your email, but got this - 550 relaying to prohibited by administrator!) It should be easy with side panel off - 2 cables - one power with small white plastic connector, the other a grey ribbon cable connecting to motherboard with long black connector. Just unplug both (note the ribbon cable's orientation - it only connects correctly one way. The power connector only fits one way). Obviously with the power off (and power cable disconnected). HTH Steve PS. If USB still doesn't work, and floppies are readable elsewhere, it is probably defective too (but odd that both should be - when did either work properly last?). You can buy a new internal floppy for about £5 here in uk from somewhere like ebuyer. On Friday, November 4, 2005 at 4:10 pm, Steve Dunn wrote: >Does the external USB drive work on other machines - because it sounds like the internal >drive is dying, and needs replacing. If USB drive ok elsewhere, try disconnecting >the internal drive before using the external one. > > > Written in response to: re: Problems accessing floppy disc drives (Steve Dunn: Friday, November 4, 2005 at 4:10 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Problems accessing floppy disc drives (NIGEL HADDOW: Fri, Nov 4, 2005, 3:46 pm) re: Problems accessing floppy disc drives (Steve Dunn: Fri, Nov 4, 2005, 4:10 pm) re: Problems accessing floppy disc drives (Steve Dunn: Fri, Nov 4, 2005, 4:28 pm) re: Problems accessing floppy disc drives (David Karwowski: Fri, Nov 4, 2005, 5:26 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum