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Phantom Floppy Drive?

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ramirez

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I'm building a new system (A8N-E A64 3200 Venice). I've updated the bios. In "My Computer" it claims I have two floppy drives, even though I only have one. I uninstalled the second one. Npw, a couple reboots later, Windows claims "Found new hardware", and sure enough, there's that second floppy drive again!! Anyone know why this would happen?
 
Check your BIOS settings for the floppy it could be the BIOS is making Windows think there are two.
 
Well, I checked the bios and it only reports one, soo, for some reason I think it's a windows thing. I dunno, I'm stumped!
 
Windows has had problems with ghost devices since Win9x. It is a basic flaw in their hardware detection routines (I wish that once you've got your hardware the way you want it, you could disable hardware detection each time you boot - just re-enable it the next time you add/remove hardware). Go into Safe Mode, go into Dev Mgr., delete ALL instances of duplicated (ghosted/phantom) devices. Reboot and let it redetect the devices.
. It used to happen all the time under Win98SE with my modem. I'd go into safemode devmgr to fix the modem and there would be an extra floppy drive, etc. I haven't had this problem since installing Win2k - but then I haven't looked at DevMgr in safe mode either. So IDK what lurks...

.bh.
 
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