Floppy Drive

Windows 2000 Pro keeps scanning the floppy drive 3 times during bootup. I have disabled the antivirus program and disabled it in the BIOS also removed all *.pif files but still the floppy is scanned 3 times during bootup.

Your help is greatly appreciated.
Rockit

 

Have you run any sort of startup app (StartupCop, msconfig from XP, etc.) to see what all is firing off at boot time?

Have you set in BIOS to have something other than the floppy as the first boot device to check?

And if neither of those helps, I'd do a full virus scan using one of the online scanners.

 

Windows 2000 and floppy drive

I've tried all that and am still having the same problem with the floppy being scanned on startup.

 

Well - let me move this to the hardware section and see if any bright ideas appear.

 

drive A

Remove you MRU from within windows explorer. Most -Recent=used then disable floppy seek in the bios

 

Floppy seek at startup

I have completely removed the A drive from the bios on bootup. I have selected "C" only for the boot sequence and disabled bootup floppy seek. I have also disabled all startup items like Norton Antivirus and deleted the *.pif files. I just cleared all MRU's but it still scans the floppy during the windows startup screen right before I log in and twice after I log in. There must be something in the registry thats causing this behaviour. I am using windows 2000 pro. At work I use windows XP and it never scans the floppy at startup.

 

Ummm

try clearing the recent docs used. Some flag is left after you have copied from A drive to hard drive is bring this about, unless you have a virus. but you say that is a no! BTW...is there a win.ini, autoexec.bat 0r a config.sys on your C drive? If so could be someone loaded a game/appy thru A & this line needs to be removed

 

drive A

http://www.virtualplastic.org/html/icn_drv.html
has a bunch of registry leads, BE careful editing registry.

 

Floppy seek

Still having the problem but today it scanned the floppy three times while the bootup screen said it was doing security checks before the login screen. I've tried all your suggestions with still no luck.

Thanks for the help
Rockit

 

I’m having the same problem only with Win98. It also scans the floppy when I close an app like word. I think it must have something to do with Norton.