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Diabling Floppy Drive in Win9X/NT

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by moey

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I have to disable all the floppy drive in my company. When I disable the Floppy in the Bios and boot to Windows it just appears as the next available drive rather than not showin up at all? How do I disable these floppies through windows without disconnecting the cables ?

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by mphoffar

With 9X, you should be able to go into the device manager and disbale the devices in there. Basically find the floppy disk, double click on it and select the disable checkbox. With NT, you should be able to just disable the floppy in devices so itdoesn't start on bootup.

At that point you would have to use poledit to hide the device manager tab in the system applet. If this is a domain they're logging into, you may want to make that change in their group policy instead of their local system

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by awdfg

If disabling the Floppy drive in the main screen of BIOS didn't work then try disabling the floppy disc controller in the BIOS,which could found in the others screens of the BIOS.

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