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re: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive
Thursday, June 5, 2003 at 8:15 am
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Posted by Bob (1 messages posted)


Disabling the floppy drive in BIOS caused my system to hang continually. The problem was the recent list. I emptied that and all was well. I had also tried removing the floppy from device manager and letting it re-install but to no good effect. Thanks for the Recent list tip!


On Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 9:18 pm, Steve wrote:
>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..   
>
>




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re: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (Steve: Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 9:18 pm)

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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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