Diskette Drive 0 Seek Failure

Hi, I am new to this forum and I have just started using an Inspirion 530 Desktop brand new out of the box for about a week and I shutdown my computer properly last night, when I switched it on this morning a black screen came up with "Diskette Drive 0 seek failure" and I don't know what to do.  Can anyone pse help, thanks

Hi I am having the same exact problem and having a realy hard time finding a solution. I was wondering if you found one yet that you would be willing to share?

I'm curious to know if you've solved your problem.

I am also having a similar problem that I have not yet fixed.  But I think I might be on to something just havent' proved it yet.  I wanted to see if anyone on this post might have external "diskettes" (ie. memory card/camera/ipod) hooked up at anytime. 

After using a system repair disk that I found, I booted from this CD and tried to repair "sytstem startup".  It said that I have an external device it's trying to boot from (ie.  memory card/camera/ipod etc).  After talking to my syster in law, who was the last to use the computer, she said she was last uploading pics to the computer when it didn't work.  I unplugged that device, and I wonder if it's caught up looking for that "diskette". 

Another weird thing I also found while troubleshooting was that in my bios boot setting that Drive A: was specified as 1.44 floppy, which I don't have. 

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Just to add to what Darrell has advised;  If you don't have a floppy drive in the system, go into the BIOS, and make sure the boot order is set to check your optical drive first (i.e. D:\), the hard drive next (usually C:\), and finally the floppy drive (A:\).

It doesn't matter then if you don't actually have a floppy drive installed, since the system is never going to be able to check for one after booting from a bootable CD/DVD or your hard drive :emotion-5:

Hello all,

The error is telling you that your "floppy" drive is not being seen at boot.

I will assume that most of you don't have a floppy drive. So, you need to restart the system and boot in the the BIOS setup screen. Turn off the floppy disk in startup and check that your hard drive is seen correctly. This most commonly happens when the motherboard battery is removed, or has died. Or when a reset was done within the setup BIOS screen.

If you need any more help, you will need to supply your model number and further information. :emotion-21:

Thanks for the input!  I changed the floppy to none, and put the boot order as said.  That helped and got me beyond the diskette drive 0 seek failure and I was able to run a diagnostic test from a recovery cd.  From there several errors were reported, bootconfig was corrupted was one error.  What a mess, but I was able to restore from there.  OS is back in order. 

OK then ....

You are all fixed up now?

Yup,... done. 

Hello,

It would be best for you to start a new question thread. :emotion-15:

We need to know your system model number, what version or Windows you use, and a description of your problem. :emotion-21:

I went to BIOS set up and removed A drive. Now I only have black screen with white curser in top left corner. Brand new 530 from Christmas. Not sure next step!

Hello I'm looking to fix my computer. I have a Dell OptiPlex GX260 Series. This Problem occured today. June 12 2009, I got on it this afternoon and everything was fine. I got on line and about 10 mins later it started lagging and having a hard time. So i turn it off (using the button on the tower) and re-started it. It got to the loading screen and right after that it said "Diskette Drive 0 seek failure". Now I've been trying to fix this all day and i haven't found anything. Please help!

 Its been referbished  and i got it not this christmas but the one before it. It has a Intel Pentium 4 processor: 2.66 GHz, Level 2 Cache: 512 intergrated. BIOS Verision: A03. And heres other stuff i wrote down in case.

Diskette Drive A 3.5 inch, 1.44MB (Not installed)

Primary Drive 0 .... Hard Drive. Model ST3160021A, Drive Type Auto, Capacity 160GB

Secondary Drive 0 .... CD-ROM Reader, Driver Type Auto, Capaity N\A

Boot Sequence, 1. IDE CD-ROM Device 2. Floppy Device (Not installed) 3. HArd Disk Drive c:

I have a Dell Deminsion  8100 and i'm having pretty much the same problem, I put a new battery in my computer and now I am getting the Strike F1 to boot and F2 to setup,  It's also not reading the Primary 1 drive either can you please help me.:emotion-7:

Denise

Great worked like a charm

I have a Dell Deminsion  8100 and i'm having pretty much the same problem, I put a new battery in my computer and now I am getting the Strike F1 to boot and F2 to setup,  It's also not reading the Primary 1 drive either can you please help me.:emotion-7: Denise

If you replaced the battery, you cleared out the CMOS memory and thus must go into Setup (F2 at bootup) and re-enter the drive settings.

when you boot it up immiditaly hold alt then hit in this order (e f b) it'll atleast get u past that...alt+e,alt+f,alt+e remeber never let go of alt!!!!!   it'll restart then when it gets th the startup(bios)screen stop pressing than it'll say configuration hit   f1  than...............PRESTO!!!!!