got a shite little laptop
it recognizes and tries to read the flooppy but cant read anything off ot no matter what is on the disc
it cant write to it either

also the pcmcia slots aint working

 

PCMCIA could be a driver issue.

FDD sounds stuffed to me.

What laptop you got?

 

If you insert a floppy disk and switch the laptop on, does it come up with invalid system disk error ? What operating system is it ? Dos test will confirm the fault

 

its using nt4
i only want it so i can use win 98 and connect it to the car

adrian
if i cant use the floppy as i cant install pcmcia drivers,even tho in system32 it has the drivers for floppy and pcmcia

 

If you have NT4 on it, you'll have a few issue's putting windows 98 on it, you'll need to format the drive into FAT 32, Neither the windows 98 boot floppy, nor cd-rom will recognise the current NTFS file system, and won't allow an installation A dos test will determine if the floppy works or not, and the pcmcia slot's could still be a driver issue, did the laptop come with nt4 on it ?