floppy drives accessed on boot up

[Guest Virgilijus]

I just upgraded to xp from 2000 and now when I boot up, the floppy drive is

accessed after xp has finished booting up. Any ideas as to what could be

causing this??

[Guest Peter Foldes]

Re: floppy drives accessed on boot up

 

accessed in which way

 

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"Virgilijus" <Virgilijus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4A630ECA-E384-4364-A583-C42E4F732B6C@microsoft.com...

>I just upgraded to xp from 2000 and now when I boot up, the floppy drive is

> accessed after xp has finished booting up. Any ideas as to what could be

> causing this??

[Guest HeyBub]

Re: floppy drives accessed on boot up

 

Virgilijus wrote:

> I just upgraded to xp from 2000 and now when I boot up, the floppy

> drive is accessed after xp has finished booting up. Any ideas as to

> what could be causing this??

 

If you're running a 16-bit DOS program, yeah, that happens. I don't know

why.

 

The mitigation is to leave a blank floppy in the drive.

[Guest Bob I]

Re: floppy drives accessed on boot up

 

Your anti-virus scanner perhaps?

 

Virgilijus wrote:

> I just upgraded to xp from 2000 and now when I boot up, the floppy drive is

> accessed after xp has finished booting up. Any ideas as to what could be

> causing this??

[Guest Virgilijus]

Re: floppy drives accessed on boot up

 

Nope, no dos program. This is right after xp starts.

 

"HeyBub" wrote:

> Virgilijus wrote:

> > I just upgraded to xp from 2000 and now when I boot up, the floppy

> > drive is accessed after xp has finished booting up. Any ideas as to

> > what could be causing this??

>

> If you're running a 16-bit DOS program, yeah, that happens. I don't know

> why.

>

> The mitigation is to leave a blank floppy in the drive.

>

>

>

[Guest Virgilijus]

Re: floppy drives accessed on boot up

 

Right after the boot, it is like some application is trying to read from

drive A:

 

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

> accessed in which way

>

> --

> Peter

>

> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others

> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

>

> "Virgilijus" <Virgilijus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4A630ECA-E384-4364-A583-C42E4F732B6C@microsoft.com...

> >I just upgraded to xp from 2000 and now when I boot up, the floppy drive is

> > accessed after xp has finished booting up. Any ideas as to what could be

> > causing this??

>

[Guest Jim]

Re: floppy drives accessed on boot up

 

 

"Virgilijus" <Virgilijus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:8253A9AA-8AAC-4ECD-8FD5-AFAEAD96A91F@microsoft.com...

> Nope, no dos program. This is right after xp starts.

>

> "HeyBub" wrote:

>

>> Virgilijus wrote:

>> > I just upgraded to xp from 2000 and now when I boot up, the floppy

>> > drive is accessed after xp has finished booting up. Any ideas as to

>> > what could be causing this??

>>

>> If you're running a 16-bit DOS program, yeah, that happens. I don't know

>> why.

>>

>> The mitigation is to leave a blank floppy in the drive.

>>

>>

>>

XP is merely trying to determine if the floppy drive exists.

Jim

[Guest John John (MVP)]

Re: floppy drives accessed on boot up

 

Jim wrote:

> "Virgilijus" <Virgilijus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:8253A9AA-8AAC-4ECD-8FD5-AFAEAD96A91F@microsoft.com...

>

>>Nope, no dos program. This is right after xp starts.

>>

>>"HeyBub" wrote:

>>

>>

>>>Virgilijus wrote:

>>>

>>>>I just upgraded to xp from 2000 and now when I boot up, the floppy

>>>>drive is accessed after xp has finished booting up. Any ideas as to

>>>>what could be causing this??

>>>

>>>If you're running a 16-bit DOS program, yeah, that happens. I don't know

>>>why.

>>>

>>>The mitigation is to leave a blank floppy in the drive.

>>>

>>>

>>>

>

> XP is merely trying to determine if the floppy drive exists.

 

XP knows that long before it boots to the user environment. Ntdetect.com

gathers that information at the very early booting stage and then passes

the information to ntldr which in turn passes it to Ntoskrnl.exe, all of

this happens very early on when Windows is just starting to boot.

 

John

[Guest Lem]

Re: floppy drives accessed on boot up

 

Virgilijus wrote:

> I just upgraded to xp from 2000 and now when I boot up, the floppy drive is

> accessed after xp has finished booting up. Any ideas as to what could be

> causing this??

 

Some disk imaging applications such as Acronis True Image seems to do

this if they are installed (rather than used from a "rescue" CD). If

you have TI installed and are bothered by this accessing, ask in

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65

 

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