Windows 98SE thinks I have a floppy drive

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rehed21

rehed21

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I'm getting an error message that Drive A and Drive C are using MS-DOS compatibility mode. I don't have a floppy drive installed, floppy drive is disabled in BIOS, and no floppy drive controller driver loaded in Windows. I have a SATA drive as drive "C" (30gb FAT 32 partition with the rest unallocated) and a CD-Rom as drive "D". I did a clean install with no floppy drive and I installed Win98 drivers from the motherboard disk. Any ideas why I'm getting this message and is there a way to resolve it? The computer is running fine, just curious about the error message. Thanks.
 
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First of all, Windows 98 doesn't support SATA drives in a native form, unless you put compatibility mode in the motherboard or something similar, but even then, it might not work. Second, Windows 98 will always show that there's a floppy drive installed, no matter what (I think it has to do with the MS-DOS floppy dependance...) Regarding your problem, that error happens every time you start Windows 98 normally? Have you tried starting in safe mode and see if there are any drivers conflicting?
 
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Win 98 SE installed on the SATA drive with no issues and with default settings in the BIOS. That really surprised me as I had used the motherboard for XP in the past and it was a PITA to install on a SATA drive. I did reinstall drivers which took away the error message for drive C being in compatibility mode. I kind of figured that Windows 98 assumes that everyone has a floppy drive which is why I am getting the error message for drive A. I now have the opportunity to play Radix and Duke Nukem and some other oldies but goodies.
 
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I believe under systems, there is a performance tab. Inside there is search for floppy on start up, disable that and see if that works.
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rehed21

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I had unchecked the performance tab and could not find any settings in the win.ini or sys.ini that would affect the floppy drive. I can live with the compatibility mode for drive A. Thanks for the input.
 
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