Why seek a floppy after boot up

1. Disable fast-find for Office. This is a common source of drive activity, as it goes out and both looks for new, and verifies that old files are still where they were.

2. Only access the floppy and Zip drive from Windows Explorer. (or another file manager)
Windows adds files stored and retrieved from within applications to the recent files folder, and then periodically checks for the presence of these files.

2a. If you don't use the recent files option in the start menu, disable it.
Some versions of TweakUI from Microsoft allow you to disabel the recent files list for Windows.
This does not effect the drop down list from the file menu for most programs.

3. Search the registry, and remove file links to the floppy and Zip drives.
You don't want to remove all references, just those that include a file name.
You can also eliminate the floppy being the "default" search location for new drivers.

4. I know that this option is present in W98 and XP, it may be present in NT.
From device manager, performance, file system;
See if you have a tab for floppy drives. If so, uncheck the search for new drives box.

4a. In BIOS settings, disable the report floppy drives to Windows switch.

Chas

Hi,

If you really want to disabled floppy disk? Why not do it in the CMOS setup before computer start rebooting I think press F4 or F5? Hope this make sense.

Cheers,

Mel Arquiza
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