error when shutting down. "drive not ready may be in use close doors and check disc"

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its talking about the a: drive, its the same thing on the other PC. I have to select abort, retry or continue to shutdown and its annoying.

the light on the floppy a: drive is always on...

someone told me its the way the lead is plugged into the a: drive and it needs to be a certain way but I dunno. any ideas?
 
power on red cable

General rule is that the red indicator lead on the floppy cable should face the power plug. HOWEVER, I have found a few FDD that this is not true for. Try it like that, and if LED won't go out after POST, then turn it around. They are not keyed like IDE cables.
 
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