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How to Disable "Floppy Seek"?
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I have built an ME machine without a floppy drive. This causes the "Install Hardware Wizard" to crash every time it searches for Drive A. This happens whether or not the controller is disabled in BIOS. Is there a patch (registry hack?) that will also remove Drive A from Windows? Omar Firestone |
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Begin by disabling the floppy drive in the BIOS setup program.
-- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Omar Firestone" wrote in message ... Hi All: I have built an ME machine without a floppy drive. This causes the "Install Hardware Wizard" to crash every time it searches for Drive A. This happens whether or not the controller is disabled in BIOS. Is there a patch (registry hack?) that will also remove Drive A from Windows? Omar Firestone |
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"Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message
... Begin by disabling the floppy drive in the BIOS setup program. Note Omar: There's a difference in almost all BIOS between disabling the floppy controller and disabling the floppy itself. This is to support the idea that you might have a floppy controller installed in an ISA/PCI/whatever slot with your floppy attached to that. You have to disable both the controller and the floppy to really get rid of it. I had a similar problem to what you're having on one of my kids machines when I removed the bad floppy drive and had no spare to put back in immediately. - Bill -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Omar Firestone" wrote in message ... Hi All: I have built an ME machine without a floppy drive. This causes the "Install Hardware Wizard" to crash every time it searches for Drive A. This happens whether or not the controller is disabled in BIOS. Is there a patch (registry hack?) that will also remove Drive A from Windows? |
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Thank you Jack and Bill. I have actually tried all four combinations of
Controller/Drive bios configuration and Windows continues to "see" the phantom drive. Just as an amputee might fall attempting to stand on a non-existent limb, the /Install Hardware Wizard/ hangs every time, forcing a hardware reboot. Perhaps the registry key controlling this can be modified, either manually or by a patch/applet? Omar ©¿©¬ Bill Leary wrote: "Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message ... Begin by disabling the floppy drive in the BIOS setup program. Note Omar: There's a difference in almost all BIOS between disabling the floppy controller and disabling the floppy itself. This is to support the idea that you might have a floppy controller installed in an ISA/PCI/whatever slot with your floppy attached to that. You have to disable both the controller and the floppy to really get rid of it. I had a similar problem to what you're having on one of my kids machines when I removed the bad floppy drive and had no spare to put back in immediately. - Bill -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Omar Firestone" wrote in message ... Hi All: I have built an ME machine without a floppy drive. This causes the "Install Hardware Wizard" to crash every time it searches for Drive A. This happens whether or not the controller is disabled in BIOS. Is there a patch (registry hack?) that will also remove Drive A from Windows? |
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Curiously enough, Floppy A appears in Explorer (which will also hang the
machine by clicking on it) a but not in the *Device Manager* tab of System Properties. I poked around in the Registry and found this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Config\0001\Enum\ACPI\*PNP0700\ 0\clOSFlop with a value set to "01". Hmmm, curiouser and curiouser... Omar ©¿©¬ Omar Firestone wrote: Thank you Jack and Bill. I have actually tried all four combinations of Controller/Drive bios configuration and Windows continues to "see" the phantom drive. Just as an amputee might fall attempting to stand on a non-existent limb, the /Install Hardware Wizard/ hangs every time, forcing a hardware reboot. Perhaps the registry key controlling this can be modified, either manually or by a patch/applet? Omar ©¿©¬ Bill Leary wrote: "Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message ... Begin by disabling the floppy drive in the BIOS setup program. Note Omar: There's a difference in almost all BIOS between disabling the floppy controller and disabling the floppy itself. This is to support the idea that you might have a floppy controller installed in an ISA/PCI/whatever slot with your floppy attached to that. You have to disable both the controller and the floppy to really get rid of it. I had a similar problem to what you're having on one of my kids machines when I removed the bad floppy drive and had no spare to put back in immediately. - Bill -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Omar Firestone" wrote in message ... Hi All: I have built an ME machine without a floppy drive. This causes the "Install Hardware Wizard" to crash every time it searches for Drive A. This happens whether or not the controller is disabled in BIOS. Is there a patch (registry hack?) that will also remove Drive A from Windows? |
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"Omar Firestone" wrote in message
... Thank you Jack and Bill. I have actually tried all four combinations of Controller/Drive bios configuration and Windows continues to "see" the phantom drive. That's just a bit amazing. Did you try booting in Safe Mode and removing the drive there? Perhaps the registry key controlling this can be modified, either manually or by a patch/applet? Perhaps, but that's outside my experience. The most I ever had to do was remove the thing in Windows, then turn it off in BIOS. I'll be interested to see how this gets resolved. Hmm. I just thought of something. Do you have an IDE Iomega ZIP drive? These things can configure themselves such that with some BIOS they'll appear as huge A: floppies. I've had a couple do that, though on the machines this happened on they actually worked. Not the failure you're seeing. - Bill |
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Bill:
Removing the drive in "Safe Mode" did the trick. In Explorer it still appears (in the right pane only!) as a "Removable Disk". I have also heard tales of a jumpered IDC connector plugged into the MB controller header that emulates a diskette drive. An old DOS trick, I'm sure. Thanx again ©¿©¬ Bill Leary wrote: "Omar Firestone" wrote in message ... Thank you Jack and Bill. I have actually tried all four combinations of Controller/Drive bios configuration and Windows continues to "see" the phantom drive. That's just a bit amazing. Did you try booting in Safe Mode and removing the drive there? Perhaps the registry key controlling this can be modified, either manually or by a patch/applet? Perhaps, but that's outside my experience. The most I ever had to do was remove the thing in Windows, then turn it off in BIOS. I'll be interested to see how this gets resolved. Hmm. I just thought of something. Do you have an IDE Iomega ZIP drive? These things can configure themselves such that with some BIOS they'll appear as huge A: floppies. I've had a couple do that, though on the machines this happened on they actually worked. Not the failure you're seeing. - Bill |
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"Omar Firestone" wrote in message
... Removing the drive in "Safe Mode" did the trick. In Explorer it still appears (in the right pane only!) as a "Removable Disk". I'm surprised it still appears even there. But I suppose sometimes a less-than-perfect solution you can live with is better than a perfect one you can't reach. - Bill |
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