Quick advice needed re "NO Floppy Drive Detected!" error

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Get into the BIOS (Del key or F2) and remove Floppy from the BOOT order.

rigolgm@hotmail.com wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Whenever I start my PC it does the usual black screen bit and some
> computer language but then it bleeps and prompts me with the following
> message:
>
> NO Floppy Drive Detected!
> Press F1 To Resume
>
>
> I can press F1 and get it running fine, but I can't actually fix this
> fault. Moreover, I tried to do System Restore but when the system
> restarts to do the restore I get the 'floppy drive' prompt and that
> seems to interfere with it.
>
> I don't have a floppy drive on this machine, which is a quite new
> Windows XP, AMD Athlon model. The problem never used to occur and I
> can't recall anything specific happening when it started, although I
> think I was deleting a lot of ordinary files around that time.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Mike
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

Good to hear, have a good one!

rigolgm@hotmail.com wrote:

> Good stuff! I had to remove it from another area of BIOS other than
> the boot order (it was a list of various floppy types and I shifted it
> to [disable], I believe, but yeah it's sorted!
>