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Help,my Floppy is freakin' out!!!!!
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Fri Dec 26, 2003 11:43 amby NoSmartz
I don't know what the heck happened to my floppy drive.I was surfin' the other day and I hit the "File" or "Edit" button on the IE6 toolbar and my floppy started wiggin' out.It starts running at warp speed and runs for about 30 seconds or until I "X" (close) the opened file. Now if I open any .zip folder or .txt file it freaks out.I have to use wordpad to open every text file now.I don't have a clue why.
Can someone explain?
Can I turn my floppy off permanently or is that not recommended?If yes,How?
Posted:
Fri Dec 26, 2003 11:56 amby Han
Check the system for viruses and spyware. You can safely unplug the floppy's ribbon and power cable, but first uninstall it from Device Manger...
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Fri Dec 26, 2003 12:08 pmby NoSmartz
I've Ad-awared and check't for viruses and both are clean.What about the BIOS checkin' for the floppy at startup?
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Posted:
Fri Dec 26, 2003 2:02 pmby texascbx
Mine did the same thing the other day,don't know why,just removed the damn thing,useless item really with XP and the advent of USB Keychain type memory.Haven't missed it either.
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Fri Dec 26, 2003 2:14 pmby NoSmartz
Don't I have to turn somethin' off in the BIOS before I remove the floppy?
I believe it searches for it at startup.
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Posted:
Fri Dec 26, 2003 3:27 pmby pranav81
Hi NoSmartz,
If you want to disable the floppy drive,you may go into BIOS and select None in front of Drive A.Then remove the power connector/ribbon connector to the drive.The drive will not be seen in Windows then.If you dont disable the drive in BIOS,and remove the power/data cable then windows will show the drive even if there isn't one connected.
I myself dont trust floppy drive as the data on the floppies gets corrupted as soon as I copy some on a diskette.I have got a 32MB USB thumbdrive,which really is very handy.
Hope this helps,
See ya later,
::Pranav::
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Fri Dec 26, 2003 5:23 pmby NoSmartz
That helps a lot pranav81.
I guess it wouldn't have hurt to left the BIOS alone but I wanted to get rid of all signs of that Floppy Drive forever.I use it once in a blue moon anyway so it's not a huge loss.My only problem now is that the Floppy I have now is a Floppy that fits in the entire 5.25" drive bay,not a normal one that fits a 3.50" drive bay.I guess I'll just have a useless dead drive left in place.I don't want a gaping hole in my case so I'll just leave it there.
I'll be looking into a thumbdrive(smartdrive)as a replacement.
A 32 mb thumbdrive here is pretty cheap.Especially now since xmas is over and the "real"sales will be going on.
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Re: Help,my Floppy is freakin' out!!!!!
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Sun Jan 04, 2004 8:04 pmby redk9258
NoSmartz wrote:I don't know what the heck happened to my floppy drive.I was surfin' the other day and I hit the "File" or "Edit" button on the IE6 toolbar and my floppy started wiggin' out.It starts running at warp speed and runs for about 30 seconds or until I "X" (close) the opened file. Now if I open any .zip folder or .txt file it freaks out.I have to use wordpad to open every text file now.I don't have a clue why.
Can someone explain?
Can I turn my floppy off permanently or is that not recommended?If yes,How?
Here's a longshot. Do you have MS office installed? There is a little program called findfast that does something similar to what you describe. If so disable it from startup.