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re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Saturday, November 22, 2003 at 6:31 pm
Posted by 666
(2255 messages posted)
I killed the idexing service a long time ago but windows still looks in the floppy
drive everytime I boot up. Any other suggestions?
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re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Saturday, November 22, 2003 at 7:11 pm
Posted by Terk
(56 messages posted)
Change your BIOS to boot from the C: drive first and it won't look for a boot floppy
again 'til your hard drive dies.
On Saturday, November 22, 2003 at 6:31 pm, 666 wrote:
>I killed the idexing service a long time ago but windows still looks in the floppy
>drive everytime I boot up. Any other suggestions?
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re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Sunday, November 23, 2003 at 2:54 am
Posted by 666
(2255 messages posted)
It's a mystery... When I got my laptop, I removed the hidden DELL partition, formatted
the HD, and installed XP on a 100% empty system. Boot seq is CD, HD, with floppy
all the way at the bottom of the list. The computer has never ever seen a floppy
disk. But the floppy drive grinds as soon as the desktop loads and has been doing
so since BEFORE I installed any other software. So something in XP must be looking
for a floppy. But what could it be?
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re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Wednesday, February 11, 2004 at 3:37 am
Posted by H
(2 messages posted)
I got the same problem.
XP which is trying to access the floppy.
Nowdays the Office XP is trying to access the floppy.
I have killed "Index-service", I have no *.pif or *.lnk in my recentlist, etc etc,
It could be that the registry contains some "search-path" for the A:...
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