How can I disable floppy drive?

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What do I have to do so that I can disable my floppy disc
drive during boot-up?? As a rule I don't use it much and
it gets annoying when it is checked for data during start
up. I really appreciate the info I obtain from this
newsroom. Thank you all very much for all of your
valuable input.
 
Go to BIOS, than Advanced Bios Features and change the First Boot Device from Floppu to HDD-0 (or whichever it boots from).
 
Hi,

Check your antivirus software, it probably has a "floppy scan on boot"
setting that you can disable. You might also want to scan the registry
(start/run regedit, click edit/find) for MRU instances of A:\, removing them
may resolve it as well. Otherwise, to disable it altogether you would need
to do that in the system BIOS (and to reenable it would require rebooting
and reversing those steps).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
There are two ways:

1) Go into the system bios and disable it in there........

2) Go into device manager (winkey - break, hardware, device manager)
drill down to "floppy disk drives" , right click on Floppy disk drive and
select "disable"

hope that helps
 
rajtheroge said:
What do I have to do so that I can disable my floppy disc
drive during boot-up?? As a rule I don't use it much and
Click to expand...

Hehe, just go into your bios and tell your PC you dont have one.
 
Better to just make it the last boot device, if you disable
it you won't be able to use it at all. I think you just
want to avoid the second while it is checked and found
empty.

Boot order CD, hard drive, floppy...


| rajtheroge wrote:
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| > What do I have to do so that I can disable my floppy
disc
| > drive during boot-up?? As a rule I don't use it much
and
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| Hehe, just go into your bios and tell your PC you dont
have one.
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| http://www.bootdisk.com/
 
Jim said:
Better to just make it the last boot device, if you disable
it you won't be able to use it at all. I think you just
want to avoid the second while it is checked and found
empty.
Click to expand...

In other words, "bypass" instead of "disable".
 
Jim Macklin said:
Better to just make it the last boot device, if you disable
it you won't be able to use it at all. I think you just
want to avoid the second while it is checked and found
empty.

Boot order CD, hard drive, floppy...
Click to expand...

Or HD, CD, floppy and only put CD up front if you are intending to boot
one (rarely)

And also many BIOSes have a 'floppy disk seek at boot' which you want to
disable
 
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