Floppy Drive Conflicts

[Doug V.]

Win98 Explorer says I have two (A&B) floppy drives. The B drive works. The A drive does not. CMOS tells me that I have a 1.44 floppy on drive A, and "NONE" for drive B. I reset the BIOS defaults, but that didn't help. I removed the floppies from the Device Manager and they both came back. During boot up, the boot sequence stops and tells me "floppy disk(s) fail (40)" and to press F1 to continue. It then tells me that "the following file is missing or corrupted


\DEV\D011V200.sys". It also tells me that there is an error on my config.sys file on line 2. Config.sys line 2 says: DEVICE\DEV\D011V200/D:MSCD000/N:1. Any help would be very much appreciated. I don't know what else to do !
Thanks you guys.

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[philipg]

Doug v.

Your config.sys file is writing wrong it should say:
DEVICE=C:\DEV\DO11V200.SYS /D:MSCD000 /N:1

Try this since if this file name is wrong or the location of the file is wrong change accordly.

If there is a program similar to this one in your AUTOEXEC.bat file make sure the string after /D:xxxxxxx is the same for this drive or it won't load properly.

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[Doug V.]

philipg,

I made the change you suggested in the config.sys file. It made no difference. There was no similar line in the autoexec.bat file.

I still have both floppy drives even though CMOS says I only have one "A floppy" drive.

Is there anything else to try? I thought CMOS was controlling here? How could "explore" see it differently?

Doug

[a Bill]

Philipg gave you the correct form for the line, the line was definately wrong to start with. Make sure you use the number 0 and not the letter O or vice versa, that's a very easy mistake to make.

As to why Windows sees something CMOS does not, Windows sees whatever it wants to http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif I had Win95 insist for quite some time I had a functional "B" drive, which I did not, and "A" was kaplooie, which it was not http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

You can use tweakui to eliminate the phantom drive. It's on your Windows CDROM. It is a phantom drive, isn't it? You never said if you had two drives or one.

Take note of which files are "missing or corrupted" and replace them.

[Doug V.]

A Bill,

The line has zeros only in it. There are no O's. There are only 2 lines in the config.sys file; the one we are talking about, and above it "FILES=40". Aside from those two lines, I haven't a clue as to what may be missing. I need to take a class on computers.

And yes, one of the drives is a phantom drive. I have only one floppy drive installed. The A drive doesn't work; the B drive does. Which one do I keep? If I delete the B drive, will the A drive take over and work like it should? I'll look for tweakui on the Win95 CD, and hopefully understand how to use it.

I really appreciate all your help. I guess the only stupid question is the one that isn't asked.

Doug

[philipg]

Ty this also make sure you are useing the right connector:

a:\drive connector is after the twist b:\ is the other one.

If they are reversed win95 will see it as any drive it wants to.

No matter what you have installed most times CMOS will not see it and Windows will and vise versa.
I would remove the drive that isn't working and put it in place the place where drive A goes on the cable and see if its seen then I would put the one that works on b: and do same.

Take heed to the direction of the power connector and the red line on the cable some drives are away from power and others are facing power.

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[Doug V.]

Hi philipg,

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif Your last suggestion did the trick ! ! !

The data cable I was using had no twist and one floppy connector on each end. It did have the other "pin" type connector in the middle though. I installed the correct cable, and ALL the gremlins fled !!!

I had to delete the floppy disk controller from the Device Manager and let Win98 recognize the floppy again, and it's working great. It even got rid of the "floppy disk(s) fail -- press F1 to continue" notice during boot-up, and the system is running faster than it did before.

I still have the "error in my config.sys file line 2" notice, but everything seems to be working great. I guess I won't worry about it.

Thanks for the help. I learned something here that I won't forget.

Doug