Floppy continues to attempt access

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Peter

I just upgraded a win98 to w2000. I admit to having a difficult time of
loading the
motherboard (ECS) drivers, but Device Manager and everything seems happy.

The problem we have is that we have constant Floppy Disk access attempts.
If I try to load explorer, the floppy try's to access (even if empty), if I
try to access a network drive the floppy attempts an access. As you can
guess this is annoying and actually halts programs when there is no diskette
in the drive.

If I shut down the floppy controller, the system works fine. As soon as I
enable the controller the problem continues.

The system is using the basic windows floppy driver. I have attempted to
reload it without avail. I have even reloaded Win2K.

Does any of this ring a bell to you? An ideas.

Thanks for any help you can offer.
 
Hi Peter,

Perhaps you have shortcuts to the floppy drive and/or shortcuts with a Target
location of A:\, in your Recent folder. And if so, perhaps deleting these shortcuts
would stop the floppy drive access attempts.

To delete all the shortcuts in your Recent Folder: Click Start, click Settings, click
Taskbar & Start Menu, select the Advanced tab and click the Clear button.

To selectively delete shortcuts from your Recent folder try this (assuming your
Recent folder is stored locally):

- If necessary change your Explorer view options as follows:
Control Panel > Folder Options > View [tab]:
Select: "Show hidden files and folders"
- Use Explorer to navigate to your Documents and Settings Folder
(C:\Documents and Settings\%UserName%)
- Click View > Explorer Bar > Search
- Enter the following string in the "Containing text:" box and click Search Now: A:\

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Carrie Garth, Microsoft MVP for Windows 2000
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: "Peter" <peddlerp AT sbcglobal DOT net>
: Wrote in message : Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 7:47 PM
:
: I just upgraded a win98 to w2000. I admit to having a difficult time of
: loading the motherboard (ECS) drivers, but Device Manager and
: everything seems happy.
:
: The problem we have is that we have constant Floppy Disk access attempts.
: If I try to load explorer, the floppy try's to access (even if empty), if I
: try to access a network drive the floppy attempts an access. As you can
: guess this is annoying and actually halts programs when there is no diskette
: in the drive.
:
: If I shut down the floppy controller, the system works fine. As soon as I
: enable the controller the problem continues.
:
: The system is using the basic windows floppy driver. I have attempted to
: reload it without avail. I have even reloaded Win2K.
:
: Does any of this ring a bell to you? An ideas.
:
: Thanks for any help you can offer.
 
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