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hi guyz,

I've recently built my PC from scratch (took a while too hehe), and i went with the option of not putting in any floppy drives at all, as i thought i won't be using it anymore since i can back up all my bigger files onto cds & dvds, and for them little files my usb drive. So each time i shut down my comptuer i get an error messaging saying that the Floppy Disk cannot be accessed and it gives me the options of [Retry] [Cancel] and [Continue]. Ofcourse it continues to shut down but the error messaging is getting really annoying!:mad:

Is it possible to remove floppy drive totally from the system so that it does not ask for it or look for it whenever i shut down.

thank you:)

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Member Avatar for TheNSS

go to the bios and disable the floppy drive there. that should take care of it. i agree floppy drives are useless

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go to the bios and disable the floppy drive there. that should take care of it. i agree floppy drives are useless

thanks TheNSS it worked, didnt know it was that simple :cheesy:

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Another way to fix this is to disable checking floppies on shutdown in your antivirus program. (incase someone else has this problem too)

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yeah, but id recommend that if you dont use or plan to use floppies, disable the controller from the BIOS and save on some IRQs.

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