Removing the floppy drive

[Bullit]

hi

Can someone tell me how to remove the floppy drive fully?

I have taken out the hardware. Removed the driver - but it keeps detecting it again when I reboot.

Where else can I hit it to nail it dead? ;-)

 

[Shrapnill]

Umm... I have no clue what youre talking about with those cables. But to disconnect a floppy all you need to do is remove the FDD cable (~2 inch wide cable in back) and the power connection (a 4 pin connector).

Here is a picture of the back of a floppy. The FDD cable is the long connection in the lower right and the power is the 4 pins above it. Floppy drives may differ in WHERE these connections are on the back, but they are the same nonetheless.

 

[Bullit]

"I have taken out the hardware". The floppy drive is gone.

I just want the system to know it's gone.
When I remove the floppy driver it doesn't stay gone - it keeps detecting the floppy drive (which is no longer physically there) and reinstalls the driver.

How do I tell XP that the floppy drive is completely gone?

 

[Shrapnill]

Ah I see.

Start > Control Panel > System > Hardware tab > Device manager button >expand Floppy disk drives > right click the drive and select "disable".

 

[Bullit]

Still problems

The floppy is still being re-detected when I remove these settings. Is there anyone out there who has successfully removed a floppy drive from win xp?

where is the last reference to the drive that I have to remove? so that it stays gone...

cheers

 

[MikeC]

The BIOS