If anyone stumbles across this from a google search in the future, I ended up getting this to work. I pulled the drive out and set the drive select to 1 and used a flat cable to connect it to the mainboard and presto, it works beautifully! http://mmanks80.vesna.bysh.me/2.jpg http://mmanks80.vesna. …

Thanks for your reply chinny. When I tested the fdd in the other computer I used the same cable as what I tried in the sharp pc. To make things more confusing, I pulled it apart again because the hdd in the sharp looked similar to a hardcard isa hdd (microfile) so plugged it into an XT (v20) i have …

Hi, I recently got a sharp pc7100 and having problems with the FDD. It was unable to boot of a disk (and the HDD is not working but worry about that later) so I stripped it down and funnily enough I found out the fdd wasn't even plugged into the motherboard. I still decided to remove the FDD pull it …