Originally Posted by hollystyles
The fact that you mention the A drive is not recognized either suggests maybe the problem is with not the cables...
One common mistake people often make is to plug the floppy's ribbon cable into the back of the drive upside down. On most floppy drives, it's a pretty easy mistake to make.
For the hard drive:
- Check the ribbon cable carefully to make sure it isn't damaged or loosely/incorrectly connected to the drive and motherboard.
- Try replacing the ribbon cable; new ones are cheap.
- The controller circuitry on t drive itself
could be going bad. Try adding the drive to another computer as a slave/secondary drive and see if it works there.
- If it isn't the drive or cable, it may be a problem with the IDE controller circuitry on the motherboard as hollystiles suggested.
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