How can one disable the floppy A drive?

[Jean]

Greetings,

I am curious to know what/how my office personal manager use to lock the A drive on everyone computer. If one try to access the drive it displays a message that the "The drive A is not formatted, do you want to format it...". Is it a software or hardware level? I think he/she may install some soft into everyone computer but I am unable to see the program in my Add/Remove software applet. Is there a way to bypass this? Any comment and help is greatly appreciated.

We use Win98, 98SE and Novel netware for our server.

 

[sohcrates]

well, easiest way is to disable the floppy drive in the bios (so hardware level). you might be able to change that, though, if you reboot and go into the bios. if it isn't password protected, then you could re-enable it

 

[Jean]

I try both solution as suggested by other users:

1st the bios: After disable floppy in the Bios, WinMe hangs when I try clicking on the 31/2 floppy A in Explorer. Under Win2K, the 31/2 icon is simply not there.

2nd Disable under Device manager - Floppy disk controller : The icon 31/2 floppy disappears under explorer.

At work, the icon is there but it keeps displaying "The drive A is not formatted, do you want to format it..." when you insert a floppy or click on the icon. There must be something else.

 

[Tates]

In bios, you also need to change the boot sequence to your cdrom. WinMe is looking for the A drive, you disabled it, so it hangs. By changing the bios so that you can boot from your cdrom, should fix it.