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by tjeades Dec 23, 2002 last reply Mar 23, 2003

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Under Device Manager my computer shows me 2 floppy drives and I do not have enough memory unless I uninstall one. When I uninstall I can use my floppy, but when I restart the system that second floppy gets installed again. How can I keep this from happening?

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by opatzg9 Dec 23, 2002

Delete them both, then when it adds one back in you should wind up with only one.

by opatzg9 Dec 31, 2002

ANOTHER OPTION ADD MORE MEMORY. Hows disk space on the c drive doing? how many files in c:\? How many in c:\windows? Clear files out of c:\windows\temp.
Anything working so far?
Did you try booting in safe mode and running a virus check, Scandisk, defrag?

by tjeades Mar 23, 2003

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by dmiles Dec 23, 2002

Check the CMOS configuration by using the designated key to enter Setup,check to make sure that you donot have the B:drive enabled

by tjeades Mar 23, 2003

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by cg it Dec 23, 2002

Do you HAVE two floppy's?

by cg it Dec 23, 2002

further, floppy drives have nothing to do with how much system memory you have or have not and how it's used. It will try to sometimes write to your system memory [provided you have system memory] but in no way configures it. Therefore, having two floppy drives and not having enough system memory doesn't make sense [nor does deleting one frees up system memory].