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Hardware => Drivers => Topic started by: snomma on December 04, 2007, 03:32:06 PM

Title: floppy disk (40) failure
Post by: snomma on December 04, 2007, 03:32:06 PM

At first my computer wasnt recognizing my IDE drives.I unplugged everything and plugged it back in..afterwards it recognizes them but it says secondary slave:none and below it, it says floppy disk (40) failure. so i have no clue whats going on.can someone please help?


thanks
-sara
 :)

Title: Re: floppy disk (40) failure
Post by: patio on December 04, 2007, 06:34:19 PM

You spent time having an avatar and a sig and spent no time providing details on your HDD's setup nor your machine ? ?

The 40 error is usually caused by the floppy cable being backwards by the way.

Title: Re: floppy disk (40) failure
Post by: street1 (RIP) on December 05, 2007, 03:48:14 AM

Follow patio's advice.Read the below Computerhope help
link.

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000426.htm