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For whatever reason when I loaded windows XP PRO I now have two floppy
drives in MY COMPUTER. One is drive A, the other is drive B. I went
into Device Manager and deleted the other floppy drive but when I
rebooted my pc it came back. I have a LS-120 floppy drive, which
Device Manger recognize, the other one just shows up as a floppy drive.
How can I get rid of the one that is just a floppy drive?


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"lpdusty" <lpdusty.1prgmy@> wrote in message
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> For whatever reason when I loaded windows XP PRO I now have two floppy
> drives in MY COMPUTER. One is drive A, the other is drive B. I went
> into Device Manager and deleted the other floppy drive but when I
> rebooted my pc it came back. I have a LS-120 floppy drive, which
> Device Manger recognize, the other one just shows up as a floppy drive.
> How can I get rid of the one that is just a floppy drive?

This may be normal. Do they both work OK?
XP might "see" them as two different drives...

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You need to go into the BIOS and turn off the floppy controller and tell it that there is no floppy
drive present. I have LS-120 also and this what I did. Usually on first BIOS setting page is a
setting for type of floppy change to none. On one of the other pages will be enable/disable floppy
controller set to disable. This wont effect 120 as it runs on IDE channel.
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"lpdusty" <lpdusty.1prgmy@> wrote in message news:nfudnXU1rOH7fwXfRVn_vg@giganews.com...
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> For whatever reason when I loaded windows XP PRO I now have two floppy
> drives in MY COMPUTER. One is drive A, the other is drive B. I went
> into Device Manager and deleted the other floppy drive but when I
> rebooted my pc it came back. I have a LS-120 floppy drive, which
> Device Manger recognize, the other one just shows up as a floppy drive.
> How can I get rid of the one that is just a floppy drive?
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> lpdustyPosted from http://www.pcreview.co.uk/ newsgroup access
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