Installation of floppy drive in Dimension E520

My E520 is just over a year, and I try to add a floppy drive (I initially opted for media player instead). I tried first to acquire a Sony USB external disk, but it was never recognized by my XP Pro operating system. I gave up on that and ordered an Ultra combo/floppy drive drive to install internally. (It has less slots than my Dell support player, but there at least those that I need).

Media players are recognized and letters assigned, but this isn't the floppy drive (normally A :). I use a cable layer disk between the connector card mother floppy drive and the floppy connector internal. (Both ends of the cable are granted, it seems that they cannot be hung back). I got to the top of the CONFIGURATION screen and set the INTERNAL floppy drive. After without drive letter has been assigned in the Windows Explorer, I brought by Device Manager and there are registrations for a floppy disk controller and the floppy drive - and both are listed as working properly. I turned to the top an old internal floppy (not certain it works) and a cable and tried hanging upwards with different configurations, but nothing works. I put a bootable floppy diskette drives in the old (and new) to see if not more, has been recognized at the start, but they were not. (NOTE: the light stays select drive turned on full time, which I remember with previous systems indicate a cable reversed - I've considered filing down the button on the drive connector plastic, just so that I could turn the tide for a test). I do not remember whether this difficult get a floppy drive to work on my other PC! Any suggestions or advice will be greatly appreciated.

Puzzled,.

Hopalong


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