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Is there a way to disable the floppy drive?

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Swampthing

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I don't have a archaic floppy drive in my system, but windows INSISTS I just HAVE to have one evidently and cannot accept the fact that someone might not want one. So it puts my non existant floppy drive into MS DOS mode. I'm frankly worried about this hitting performance in some way shape or form. So my question is does anyone know a way to COMPLETELY disable the floppy drive? I have it disabled in bios, both the check and the controller. I have the controller disabled in windows as well. But windows still thinks it's there and even creates a drive letter for it. Frankly I dunno what the hell anyone would use a floppy for anymore anyways. I have all my boot disks on CD rom.
 


<< Frankly I dunno what the hell anyone would use a floppy for anymore anyways. I have all my boot disks on CD rom. >>

Lots of stuff. Try loading Promise Ultra100 drivers in Win2k setup w/o a floppy. Or an ERD if you use Win2k's software RAID or spanning functions.


But with Win98 you have to remember, you are dealing with an OS that's very very old. Win98 is just a Shell on top of DOS. And when DOS started back in the day, people didn't even have hard drives.

The floppy drive is pretty well ingrained in DOS. I've never managed to get Windows to acknowledge that there really isn't one. But it's not going to have any performance impact.
 
Actually I run win2k dual boot with Winme and have a promise controller. Don't need a floppy to get it installed. Funny part is, one of my other computers was the one that DIDN'T have a floppy before and now that it DOES have one the a drive letter is gone and windows can't see it hehe.
 
Depending on your BIOS, you need to disable the Floppy by selecting None in the Standard CMOS Option and also to have it reported as NO in the Advance Option. You also need to tell Windows not to seek for a Floppy by unchecking the option under the Performance Tab/Floppy.😎
 
You can also speed up your bootup process by disabling the &quot;seek floppy boot&quot; option.

serialb
 
Have all that set, was hoping there was something else. Guess it all comes down to microsoft insisting there has to be a floppy in the machine therefore there must be a floppy in the machine.
 
Yeah I know what you mean. I'm running 98se without a floppy drive, and in the system properties it has the message about how &quot;MS DOS Drive A: is running in compatibility mode&quot; or something to that effect. It doesn't seem to make a difference in performance though.
 
Use TweakUI to get rid of the floppy drive letter in Explorer if it's bugging you. Bugged me, did that, all better
 
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