windows keeps polling floppy on startup

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Hello,

I rarely use my floppy, but did a while back, now every time XP boots up, I
hear the floppy grinding and gnashing as XP supposedly looks for a disk in
the drive ...??

any way to stop the grindig and gnashing?

thanks!!

Dan

 

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Check your Recent Documents for a link to anything that was on a floppy.

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"Dan Blather" <gimme@shelter.com> wrote in message news:cwFCe.136950$tt5.16450@edtnps90...
> Hello,
>
> I rarely use my floppy, but did a while back, now every time XP boots up, I
> hear the floppy grinding and gnashing as XP supposedly looks for a disk in
> the drive ...??
>
> any way to stop the grindig and gnashing?
>
> thanks!!
>
> Dan
>
>

 

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My Virus checker or XP checks the floppy so after grinding one to death I
leave a bootable floppy in the drive with the BIOS startup on the hard drive
and the grinding noise disappeared at the same time my 3rd wife left with
her noise.
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"Dan Blather" <gimme@shelter.com> wrote in message
news:cwFCe.136950$tt5.16450@edtnps90...
> Hello,
>
> I rarely use my floppy, but did a while back, now every time XP boots up,
> I hear the floppy grinding and gnashing as XP supposedly looks for a disk
> in the drive ...??
>
> any way to stop the grindig and gnashing?
>
> thanks!!
>
> Dan
>

 

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Change the preference of your boot at the BIOS stage. i.e. press <del>
when your PC starts to boot; this will take you to the initial setup.


Dan Blather wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I rarely use my floppy, but did a while back, now every time XP boots up, I
> hear the floppy grinding and gnashing as XP supposedly looks for a disk in
> the drive ...??
>
> any way to stop the grindig and gnashing?
>
> thanks!!
>
> Dan
>
>

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thanks, but this is not a BIOS issue. BIOS only seeks the boot device.
This is WINDOWS. after booting is complete, grinding away at the floppy.

Dan

"Khitanian" <Khitanian@Khitan.com> wrote in message
news:dbfppf$8gj$1@mawar.singnet.com.sg...
> Change the preference of your boot at the BIOS stage. i.e. press <del>
> when your PC starts to boot; this will take you to the initial setup.
>
>
> Dan Blather wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I rarely use my floppy, but did a while back, now every time XP boots up,
>> I
>> hear the floppy grinding and gnashing as XP supposedly looks for a disk
>> in
>> the drive ...??
>>
>> any way to stop the grindig and gnashing?
>>
>> thanks!!
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>
> --
> Oderient dum Metuant