My g/f's PC had a problem withthe floppy drive not working, so I bought a replacement and fitted it last night.

For some reason the light on the drive is permanently lit and whenever I try and access a disk it returns an error message saying drive not ready.

Any ideas what I could do to get it working?

Andy

make sure the cables are connected the right way around, sounds like you have one on wrong somewhere

Cable is upside down :)

Tou've got the thingy wotsit on the doo-dahh the upsidedown way round.

lol!

which cable? the power supply? that looked like it would only fit one way??

The ribbon cable that connects to the m/board. If you look on the pins on the floppy drive one may be number 1, the edge of the ribbon cable that has a colured edge should go on that. Same at the m/board end :)