i HAVE A GATEWAY COMPUTER ''THAT WAS MANUFACTURED IN 2000 ''AND IT WAS SHIPPED TO ME WITHOUT A FLOPPY DRIVE INSTALLED SO I ADDED ONE ''' AND MADE SURE ALL CABLES WERE CORRECTLY CONFIGURED AT BOARD AND THE DRIVE ITSSELF'' AND MADE SURFE THE POWER CABLE WAS GETTING POWER'' AND CONFIGURED 'IT AT BIOS'' TO 1.44 FLOPPY DRIVE 'AND MY BIOS JUST WONT RECOGNIZE IT AT ALL AND THERE IS NO RESPONSE AT ALL FROM THE DRIVE '' I KNOW THE DRIVE IS GOOD BECAUSE IT WORKS IN AN OLDER GATEWAY COMPUTER I HAVE'' ???? CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH THIS PROBLEM ??? THANKS

Recheck everything. Your missing something. Bad floppy cable or incorrectly connected would be my first guess. If drive works in another computer it will in this one if properly installed and configured.

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Recheck everything. Your missing something. Bad floppy cable or incorrectly connected would be my first guess. If drive works in another computer it will in this one if properly installed and configured.

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I have checked all cables and power connections they are right'' I even transferred the cable to my older gateway and it works fine'' there'' the cables are fine '' and it is getting power also ??????

Just a thought. Go in device manager and see if the floppy drive controller is there

I've never known a BIOS that can't talk to a floppy drive so you've missed something.

1) Check your security settings; floppy drive access might be locked out.

2) Check the boot order, put the floppy first and use a bootable floppy for all your tests. Trying to find a disk drive from within an operating system introduces too many possible problems - like disabled drive controllers. You need the BIOS to find it directly.

3) Look for anything under CDROM in case it's trying to use the same drive letter.

4) If you have a non-SCSI tape drive remove it. I've heard that some old tape drives mimic a floppy disk.