Floppy Drive acting dumb

[Freemymelody]

Ok. It seems that everytime, I insert a floppy, and click on it to open, it keeps on warning me to insert a disk. The dumb thing about is, I already inserted a disk. There's a light that shows that it working. But I'm not getting any results.

I tried it with most of my floppies. So I am pretty sure it has nothing to do with the floppies.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

[Armo]

floppy drives tend to get dirty. all of mine say the disks arent formatted, and when i try to formatt them it totally messes up the disk rendering it usless, if u need a floppy drive they sell drive cleaning kits, which are essentially floppy disks with cleaning pads instead of data disks in them, or you could get a USB pen drive and forget about the floppy drive. the USB drives are awsome and cheap

[Black Hawk]

All of mine say the disks arent formatted, and when i try to formatt them it totally messes up the disk rendering it usless, if u need a floppy drive they sell drive cleaning kits, which are essentially floppy disks with cleaning pads instead of data disks in them, or you could get a USB pen drive and forget about the floppy drive. the USB drives are awsome and cheapUggh. Mine did the same damn thing, but I never thought of cleaning it. I just threw it away and never needed it since.

[EMT]

If the drive's light stays on all the time, the cable is plugged in upside-down on the back of the drive.

[Access_Denied]

iv only tryed to use mine once and it did that.. i just disabled it from BIOS and now my computer starts quicker cause it dont have to test it everytime it starts. i would throw mine away but its sorta intagraded into the front of my case :(

[TheSmJ]

I still find floppies much easier to use than CD-Rs. USB drives are ok, but if you're using a Win98 or older computer you're stuck either A: Downloading/installing drivers for it or B: not using it at all due to lack of USB support.

[Freemymelody]

My zip drive works fine, so does my cd drive..

Stupid floppy drive :rolleyes: I guess it could be that it's plugged in upside-down.
On the inside...crap!