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Dealing with non-existent floppy drives in Win9x

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First post, by F2bnp

Posted on 2015-03-22, 01:00

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We've all been there. Built a system that has no need of a floppy drive, turned the floppy drive controller off and every similar option. And yet the phantom floppy drive still exists! I've seen it under Win98 and WinME, classified as a removable drive.
Under Control Panel/System/Performance, the following always appears "Drive A is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system".

It is more of a nuisance than an actual problem, but has anyone ever managed to get rid of this? As far as I can tell it ain't doing anything harmful, other than driving me semi-nuts 😜.

Reply 1 of 5, by HighTreason

Posted on 2015-03-22, 01:07

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Some motherboards have a "Report no FDD for Win 95" option in the BIOS.

Alternatively, try disabling the floppy and it's controllers if they show up in Device Manager.

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Reply 2 of 5, by F2bnp

Posted on 2015-03-22, 01:16

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True, I had forgotten about that option. Unfortunately, the system that's exhibiting this behavior right now doesn't have this option and I seem to remember trying it on another system and it not working 🙁.

I'll gladly take a look in the Device Manager, thanks 😁!

Reply 3 of 5, by F2bnp

Posted on 2015-03-22, 14:34

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No dice 🙁. Nothing shows up in the Device Manager, thanks anyway! Anybody have a better idea?

Reply 4 of 5, by JayCeeBee64

Posted on 2015-03-22, 16:07

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Try the suggestions given in these old forum links (if you haven't already):

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/114895-get-ri … e-floppy-drive/

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9125083

Ooohh, the pain......

Reply 5 of 5, by F2bnp

Posted on 2015-03-22, 17:40

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JayCeeBee64 wrote:
Try the suggestions given in these old forum links (if you haven't already):

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/114895-get-ri … e-floppy-drive/

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9125083

Ace! Drive Manipulator from msfn did the trick! Keeping this little tool safe, I will definitely need it in the future! Cheers!

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