Floppy only works perfectly in safe mode

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Richard Symonds

Hi - unusual problem with floppy disk drive

First to eliminate - have tried new drive and cable with same results and
new Verbatim Disks

I have 2000 with SP2

The problem shows when formatting a floppy or creating (for example) Windows
2000 Setup Boot Disks

During the creation of Boot Disks I get a 'Drive not Ready' error message
at a seemingly random period of time during the creation of the disk.

Two things solve the problem

1) Run windows in safe mode - drive works fine and MUCH faster

2) I experimented with removing some running processes before starting using
the drive - i stoppped all the processes relating to my HP printer (only
picked it because I could recognise its processes in Task Manager by
name!!!) - now the disk would be created perfectly but very slowly and
'grind' through the process.

I have no 'intensive' processes running during this time

Am lost!!!!!

Many Thanks in advance for any help or pointers
 
Disable any antivirus you have running and try.it.
This is the most likely app to have hooked the floppy.

Steve Duff, MCSE
Ergodic Systems, Inc.

[ What? No antivirus? Forget the floppy then, you
have a bigger problem...]
 
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