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re: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive
Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 9:18 pm
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Posted by Steve (1481 messages posted)


you'll find all kind of suggestions on this...what i did was simply disable the floppy 
in bios...never use it for anything anyway...only there for an emergency..this is 
just what worked best for me..   





On Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 9:07 pm, LF wrote: >I'm dealing with a few systems that have Windows XP Pro installed cleanly on them >and on random boot-ups they constantly try to access the floppy drive once Windows >gets to the desktop. All other applications and services are INCREDIBLY slow while >this happens. The only thing to do is shut down. I've cleared all startup programs >with MSCONFIG, but the problem still occurs. Any ideas?



Written in response to:
Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (LF: Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 9:07 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (Bob: Thursday, June 5, 2003 at 8:15 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (LF: Wed, Jan 8, 2003, 9:07 pm)
-re: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (Steve: Wed, Jan 8, 2003, 9:18 pm)
*re: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (Bob: Thu, Jun 5, 2003, 8:15 am)
-re: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (Ricer46: Thu, Jan 9, 2003, 7:28 am)
*re: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (LF: Thu, Jan 9, 2003, 11:50 am)
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