Short for Floppy Disk Controller, FDC is a controller used to interface the floppy disk drive with the computer.

A computer with a floppy drive may encounter a FDC Failure error message when a physical hardware failure has occurred with the floppy diskette drive. When this occurs our basic floppy disk drive troubleshooting steps should be followed.

Computer acronyms, Floppy drive terms

  • How to troubleshoot floppy disk drive issues.
  • Floppy drive help and support.