can't access floppydrive(win98seprob)

[BIGO]

I had this exact problem and had to do the following: The original floppy was a sony and had a short floppy drive cable. I changed to a TEAC floppy and put in a longer cable (an old one--in fact,still had the old style 5-1/4 drive connector on it, too). Since doing this change, I've had no problems. I have no idea WHY this worked. Good luck.

[pickel]

davey: Welcome to the wonderful world of Win 98 2nd Edtn!!!! Wish you could have heard me the first time I booted to it!!! Immediate
uninstall, luckily without having to format!
But the full install on my daughter's computer works fine. Go figure... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

the pickel

[davey]

CAN ANYONE HELP PLEASE,Ive just installed windows 98 second edition and when i try to acess my floppy drive everything stalls the mouse pointer moves erratically and after a few mins I get drive not accessible message.
the drive works fine in plain DOS (but not from msdos mode or windows command)I can end task to get back to desktop(but even this takes 4-5mins)

[davey]

cheers for the reply's fella's ive not tried replacing the drive or cable yet but may as a last resort. wierd thing is i tried taking out some new yamaha sound card drivers (updates on mme + asio)in case they were causing the prob. drive started working fine until i switched off then came back later and drive was inaccessible again??