Dell Dimension 2400 floppy drive

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Hi. So I have a retro Windows XP era PC setup built on an old Dell Dimension 2400 that I have upgraded, one of these upgrades included adding a 3.5" floppy drive using a bracket I bought and a drive and cable that I salvaged from a scrapped late 90s PC. The drive worked in another PC I tested it on (a mid-late 00s HP) but when installed in the Dell and enabled in the BIOS the drive makes no noise on POST but the drive shows up in Windows. Do these Dells only work with specific models of FDDs or is there something else I'm missing?

Posted Apr 8, 2026, 2:44 AM UTC

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