From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Thu Sep 24 1998 - 11:31:45 EDT
Darren..
1. connect the floppy, with a diskette in it..
2. boot into win9x,
3. start windows file manager,
4. select "C:" drive and thus deselect "A:" drive..
this might be your problem.. that windows is looking for the last device it had
accessed because you read a floppy, quit out of file manager and then, later
shut down and removed the floppy drive..
Ken wrote:
> At 08:03 AM 9/24/98 +1000, Darren J. Paul wrote:
> >My Thinkpad 760XL is experiencing a problem with accessing its external
> >floppy disk drive, and I was wondering if anyone could help. I rarely have
> >the drive attached, yet immediately after booting Windows 95 and now during
> >almost any file operation with Windows Explorer, the machine seizes up for
> >twenty to thirty seconds while it looks for the A drive. Does anyone know
> >of a setting to be altered to prevent this?
>
> The page "Windows 95 Annoyances" addresses the common problems of Windows
> 95 accessing your floppy drive for no apparent reason. See
> http://www.annoyances.org/win95/win95ann6.html#07 for suggested solutions.
>
> Ken
> kenzo_at_free-music.com
> http://free-music.com/ken
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