floppy drive

[themanwhowas]

earlier today everything was fine. now, when i try to boot from a floppy disc, i get a lot of loud whirring sounds but no booting. when i am in windows, all of my floppy discs make loud whirring sounds then i get a message saying that my discs arent formatted. after formatting i can open the discs window and drag and drop files. but i cant create a bootable disc. well, they will not boot anyway. my bios settings scan for the floppy as the first boot device. what is happenning please?

[Welshjim]

themanwhowas--I assume you were previously able to boot from this floppy disk.
This reference has some ideas on the whirring, etc.
http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread...stpost&t=45951
But nothing about booting from the floppy. Maybe if you cure the whirring, the floppy will become bootable again.

[themanwhowas]

its a lot louder than what the person in the link describes. ill take it out on the weekend and have a look myself.

[SuperSparks]

Your floppy drive has died. They are so cheap that it isn't worth even attempting to repair one, even if it's possible, which it usually isn't. I'd just replace it.