If you can get a known working drive just unplug the power and ribbon cables from the drive that is not working and plug them into the good drive and see what happens,(power off the computer before you do this).
every time i load a floppy in the drive it comes up as write protected yet when i load the same floppy disc into another computer it is okay. i am running xp the tab on the disc has not been moved
much appreciated if anyone can help thankyou

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