My floppy drive can't read my disk. But it keeps on saying : There is no disk in drive. What am I doing wrong?
78704
I've had these problems in the past and what this meant  was usually that MY FLOPPY DRIVE BURNED OUT and the only was to fix it was to replace the whole thing.
305134
Sounds  strange.  Try right formatting the drive by right clicking on it.  This should work.
935366
1. Begin by placing the floppy disk that you want to copy into your floppy drive.\n2. Then double click on the My Computer icon on your Desktop until it opens.\n3. Then gently click on the 3½ Floppy (A:) icon just until it becomes highlighted.\n4. Then click on the word File, which is contained in your top tool bar area.\n5. This will pull down a menu for you to now click on Copy Disk.\n6. 3½ Floppy (A:) will appear highlighted in both the Copy from: box and the Copy to: box.\n7. Then click on the Start button to initiate the Copy Disk process.\n8. Windows will tell you to insert the disk you want to copy from (source disk).\n9. Acknowledge this prompt by clicking on the OK button to initiate the copy process.\n10. A progress indicator bar will travel 50% across the screen while reading the source disk.\n11. Then Windows will prompt you to insert the disk you want to copy to (destination disk.)\n12. Place your destination disk into your floppy drive and click on the OK button to continue.\n13. The progress indicator will indicate that it is now writing to the destination disk.\n14. You will then receive notification stating that the Copy completed successfully.\n15. Then close all open windows to return back to your Windows session.
433319
Hmm think maybe you deleted an important sytem file like startup.ini or something. Asking for the disk means it wants a floppy. I would check the BIOS settings and make sure it is booting to the hard drive first, then try to start in safe mode by pressing f8 while it boots (if it gets that far) Otherwise sounds like you need to reinstall the operating . It probably wants a boot floppy, use one if you have one.
802156
Not only is it a separate slave drive or just a partition on the same disk but, have any of the letters for your other drives changed? We kinda need this info in order to be able to give you the PROPER instructions to fix your problem.\n\nHowever, by reading your question, carefully, I'm wondering if your cd drive was being called "D" drive. If it that's the case and it continues not to read cds you put in it, you may have to take your puter into the shop and have the connections on the hardware checked as well as the reader on the cd-rom drive itself.
607538
How do you intend to boot without a floppy drive?  You want to make a bootable CD ROM?\n\nMaybe try: http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/cdromsi/
338214
Looks like you have done most of the troubleshooting. Call up Dell. They would assist you in probably replacing the drive if the system is within contracts.\n\nBut they might ask you to repeat the steps you carried out and a few more, just to make sure its not the fault with the operating system.\n\nGood Luck!
301227
insert floppy disc in to "A" drive\nselect drive "A" (click start then mycomputer if using XP)\nright click mouse on "A" drive icon\nselect format disk
259598
Maybe you need a new CD or DVD ROM Drive. If you want, you can buy CD-RW drive or DVD-/+RW drive (Also burn CD)\n\nPlus, they not disk they disc like CD or DVD!\n\nDisk mean like floppy disk or hard drive
406853
press ctrl+o on  keyboard\nthen at the top of a open page in front of "look in" roll down the menu & search for a:/(floppy disk) then search your file & then click on open
1023090
One of those old 3.5 disks? With my old computer, my A drive would sometimes give me that error because the disk was not completely pressed down in the slot. I would just push it in slightly until it began reading it. Try that. (I assume that the drive works? Like, it makes noises  as if it's trying to read the floppy. If it is totally quiet you might need to reinstall the drive or its driver by going to the Control Panel).
719598
No, use the one that comes with the computer.\n\nThe floppy disk is not working here any more
844998
reinstalling windows is a bit of an extreme method of making a floppy disk work.\nmaybe you have some strange disks, or the drive is bad,\nbut before even trying to buy new drive or disks, look at the price of USB flash drives, a floppy disk is 1.44MB and costs about a buck\n512MB flash drive can be acquired for $15 that's over 350 times the size for 15 times the price, and its so easy to use.\n\nfloppy drive isn't working for a reason.
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1st look on the cd or floppy if you have one.\n2nd try manufactures web site.\n3rd www.driversguide.com\n\nif you need to login then try this\n\nusername             drivers\npassword              all\n\nnot sure if this is still a current login you will have to give it a go.
1015324
If you have a floopy drive you can format it for a bootable disk. Go to your "my computer" and right click on the floppy drive and click on format. After that you can choose how to format it. Hope this helps. Thanks. Rock.
58550
Check the Device Manager and make sure you have the proper drivers installed. If your PC recognizes it, (or it doesn't) and it doesn't read a known good disk, the drive is bad. Replace! You can also go to 'My Computer' and make sure Windows recognizes it there.
25785
Hard to diagnose the problem with just that info.\n\nFirst, are you installing software from a floppy disk or a CD Rom?\n\nIf it's a CD, perhaps the CD drive in your PC does not have the drive letter d:\n\nOr if you have > 1 CD / DVD drive, perhaps you're using the wrong one in terms of one that's labled d:.  In my system, for example, I have d:, e:, and f: CD/DVD drives.\n\nIf it's a floppy, it's most likely a: or b:, not d: