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Sam__
12-21-07, 04:34 PM
Basically I am trying to get my matrix drivers onto a floppy drive so i can re-install a fresh windows.

BUT....I have tried three different drives and two different cables but to no avail. I have no idea what im doing wrong.

I get into windows and double click with a blank floppy in the drive and windows asks me if i want to format it....so i click yes but then it says there is no disk in the drive.

Any ideas...I feel like im missing something really stupidly simple.
billb
12-21-07, 04:39 PM
Any ideas...I feel like im missing something really stupidly simple.Turn over the data cable at the drive. It's plugged in up-side-down.
Sam__
12-21-07, 04:45 PM
Turn over the data cable at the drive. It's plugged in up-side-down.

Thanks....now please slap me for being such a n00b :D
tuskenraider
12-21-07, 04:57 PM
What, you didn't have a solid light on the floppy drive the whole time indicating the cable issue? :beer:
Sam__
12-21-07, 05:01 PM
What, you didn't have a solid light on the floppy drive the whole time indicating the cable issue? :beer:

so thats why the light was on....:D

iv never really used floppys that much lol.

I apologize for my ignorance.
Quick69GTO
12-24-07, 11:18 AM
"I apologize for my ignorance."

That's O.K.
Floppies have become old tech and lately I have found that allot of people have either forgotten how to connect/use them or flat out don't know what it is (younger folks).
Anyone remember 5.25 floppies run as hard drives?
nd4spdbh2
12-24-07, 12:24 PM
"I apologize for my ignorance."

That's O.K.
Floppies have become old tech and lately I have found that allot of people have either forgotten how to connect/use them or flat out don't know what it is (younger folks).
Anyone remember 5.25 floppies run as hard drives?

now ur just making urself sound REAL old :p

and to the OP we all have put the cable in upside down on a floppy once in our lives.
Theocnoob
12-24-07, 02:37 PM
so thats why the light was on....:D

iv never really used floppys that much lol.

I apologize for my ignorance.

I havent used floppies since the mid 90s... :P
Quick69GTO
12-24-07, 03:06 PM
now ur just making urself sound REAL old :p

Yep. I am.