Axel
07-18-2000, 07:30 PM
Here's a few thoughts -
In the BIOS / Chipset settings, does the a: drive letter still show in the boot sequence? or do you have it set to c: only or SCSI only? - that might be the issue.
Next - reboot into safe mode and open up your device manager - when looking at the device manager in safe mode, you see a lot of left-over stuff which once was there, but has been removed. sometimes these ghosts come back to haunt you and they should be removed to complete a clean de-install of hardware. You might check under disk drives and remove any floppys there and also disable the floppy disk controller in your hardware profile - I don't think you can remove it - the system will keep on re-detecting it if you try.....
Now that I've told you how to do this silly thing - why would you want to do something as silly as not having any floppy drives on your system? Is it a security thing - the 2 year old using it as a coin box and you fear a short or something??? - Yes - definitely remove the 5.25 floppy drive from the case and send it to a display at the local antique shop - then replace the floppy ribbon cable and put a TEAC 3.5 floppy drive back into the case..... There are too many things it's useful for these days....
You may have heard the term "sneaker net" - this means taking a floppy and using it as the "network" connection between two computers - I.E. - save the file to a floppy and walk it over......
If for nothing else - you can still find DOS floppys in some places which have saved my behind from time to time on system rebuilds when nothing else would run.....
In the BIOS / Chipset settings, does the a: drive letter still show in the boot sequence? or do you have it set to c: only or SCSI only? - that might be the issue.
Next - reboot into safe mode and open up your device manager - when looking at the device manager in safe mode, you see a lot of left-over stuff which once was there, but has been removed. sometimes these ghosts come back to haunt you and they should be removed to complete a clean de-install of hardware. You might check under disk drives and remove any floppys there and also disable the floppy disk controller in your hardware profile - I don't think you can remove it - the system will keep on re-detecting it if you try.....
Now that I've told you how to do this silly thing - why would you want to do something as silly as not having any floppy drives on your system? Is it a security thing - the 2 year old using it as a coin box and you fear a short or something??? - Yes - definitely remove the 5.25 floppy drive from the case and send it to a display at the local antique shop - then replace the floppy ribbon cable and put a TEAC 3.5 floppy drive back into the case..... There are too many things it's useful for these days....
You may have heard the term "sneaker net" - this means taking a floppy and using it as the "network" connection between two computers - I.E. - save the file to a floppy and walk it over......
If for nothing else - you can still find DOS floppys in some places which have saved my behind from time to time on system rebuilds when nothing else would run.....