floppy failure

[savalas]

oops, i borrowed my mates floppy drive to do a bios update on my floppyless pc, just unplugged from the ide cable and power, worked fine on my pc, trouble being that when i put it back into his machine I am getting a floppy failure message, have tried a new ide cable but the drive has a continuous green light showing (so i know the power is ok) but is not being picked up by the system, can boot ok to windows by bypassing, have i fried the drive or is this likely to be an ide fault? any advice appreciated

[blockers]

Have you tried the IDE cable round the other way? such as swap the ends round. and twist them as pin 1 has to be in slot 1 of the IDE cable. If you dont know the red strip down the side of the cable is number1.

Just play about with it a bit more, maybe reset the CMOS....

Will

[savalas]

cheers blockers! worked a treat, the drive end of the cable needed twisting..