I need help with Floppy Disk Drive (W98)

[johnnabn]

I Recently changed motherboards and processors in my computer, and after that my floppy disk drive has not worked. I bought a second floppy disk drive thinking that i broke the other one, and installed it. It recognized it as new hardware and said it was installing it. But it won't recognize it. It just says drive A is not accessible. I have tried several solutions on Microsoft's Website trying to fix by going into Safe Mode. I don't really know what is making it not work, but i think it may have to do with haveing 2 floppy drives and not recognizing the new one. (Note: It also says under performance tab in the System file in the control panel quote" Drive A is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system" Can anyone tell me what may be wrong and how to possibly fix it?

Thanks

[gangsta]

When you turn on your PC does your floppy LED light go on and then off or does it stay on constantly. This is without a floppy media inside it?

and if you go to pure DOS mode and type A: , what happens?
are you able to access it in DOS?

In the START>Settings>CP>System>Device Manager TAB>
is there a floppy or drive Icon listed for A:
what does it say for that drive"s properties (if it exists)

[jmatt]

http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/tsmsdos.html
http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/mscompat2.html
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q130/1/79.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q175/6/29.ASP
http://search.microsoft.com/us/SearchMS25.asp?so=RECCNT&qu=q131499&boolean=ALL&i=00&i=02&i=04&i=06&i=08&i=01&i=03&i=05&i=07&i=09&p=1&nq=NEW
http://search.microsoft.com/us/SearchMS25.asp?so=RECCNT&qu=151911&qu=q130179&boolean=ALL&i=00&i=02&i=04&i=06&i=08&i=01&i=03&i=05&i=07&i=09&p=1&nq=NEW
http://www.infinisource.com/techfiles/msdos-compatibility.html
http://216.167.71.32/techfiles/msdos-compatibility.html