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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Thursday, January 8, 2004 at 4:24 am
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Posted by triplate (20301 messages posted)


Disable Floppy Seek in the Bios...see if that doesnt get it....


On Thursday, January 8, 2004 at 3:44 am, Lucky wrote:
>My problem is whenever I run Windows Setup, or Windows Recovery Console on my system.
>It starts loading the console, and then sits there spinning the floppy drive a good
>half hour or so before finally botting into the recovery console (or Setup), anyone
>know what might cause this and how to stop it from doing this? Seems to only happen
>on this system and no matter what hard drive I use, though they all have Windows
>XP installed, so it has to be something to do with that.


Written in response to:
Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Lucky: Thursday, January 8, 2004 at 3:44 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (mark_f: Thursday, January 8, 2004 at 5:29 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Lucky: Thu, Jan 8, 2004, 3:44 am)
-re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (triplate: Thu, Jan 8, 2004, 4:24 am)
-re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (mark_f: Thu, Jan 8, 2004, 5:29 am)
*re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (triplate: Thu, Jan 8, 2004, 5:33 am)
*re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Ricer46: Thu, Jan 8, 2004, 7:40 am)
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