floppy drives accessed on boot up

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Virgilijus

I just upgraded to xp from 2000 and now when I boot up, the floppy drive is
accessed after xp has finished booting up. Any ideas as to what could be
causing this??
 
Virgilijus said:
I just upgraded to xp from 2000 and now when I boot up, the floppy
drive is accessed after xp has finished booting up. Any ideas as to
what could be causing this??
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If you're running a 16-bit DOS program, yeah, that happens. I don't know
why.

The mitigation is to leave a blank floppy in the drive.
 
Right after the boot, it is like some application is trying to read from
drive A:
 
Jim said:
XP is merely trying to determine if the floppy drive exists.
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XP knows that long before it boots to the user environment. Ntdetect.com
gathers that information at the very early booting stage and then passes
the information to ntldr which in turn passes it to Ntoskrnl.exe, all of
this happens very early on when Windows is just starting to boot.

John
 
Virgilijus said:
I just upgraded to xp from 2000 and now when I boot up, the floppy drive is
accessed after xp has finished booting up. Any ideas as to what could be
causing this??
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Some disk imaging applications such as Acronis True Image seems to do
this if they are installed (rather than used from a "rescue" CD). If
you have TI installed and are bothered by this accessing, ask in
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65

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