re: My own solution to 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Wednesday, August 10, 2005 at 8:36 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by imran
(1 messages posted)
how did you manage to change your path using set? i have the same problem.
On Sunday, March 13, 2005 at 1:58 pm, bigboy wrote:
>Re: Stop
>Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive:
>
>I tried everything above, and it didn't seem to work. However, I did notice that
>when I checked the PATH environment variable on the command line, something was
adding
>my floppy drive to the path. It wasn't in my Advanced settings in the System control
>panel. But I did see it when I ran CMD.EXE and typed "set" to see all the environment
>variables.
>
>However, after doing some searching around, I found that my partition with Win98
>bootfiles had an autoexec.bat file there. And that is what was adding a:\ to my
path!
>Once I commented it out the set path line, my floppy grinding went away.
>
>So, for some reason, WinXP was executing that autoexec.bat file that wasn't sitting
>on the system partition(!), which added a:\ to my path, and caused all the grinding
>noise whenever I ran a program.
>
>So, if none of the above solutions work, check your PATH environment variable on
>the command line to see if your floppy drive is on it. If it is, it could be an
autoexec.bat
>file sitting somewhere....
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