Floppy seek fix

[Outlaw21]

If you are experiencing floppy drive seek every time you open a folder or Windows explorer, go to 'services' and set "Shell Hardware Detection" to 'automatic'. This will stop the floppy seek every time you open a folder.

 

[max]

nice TIP man .. thanks

That was annoying me hearing my floppy drive crunching

 

[Qumahlin]

ok this is off topic...but wouldn't you bet that 2 days ago I took the step of removing my floppy drive as I hadn't used it in god knows how long....

and today my boss gives me an excel file on a floppy...and refused to just e-mail it to me doh!

 

[Yodums]

Originally posted by Qumahlin
ok this is off topic...but wouldn't you bet that 2 days ago I took the step of removing my floppy drive as I hadn't used it in god knows how long....

and today my boss gives me an excel file on a floppy...and refused to just e-mail it to me doh!

Your not alone, I only use a floppy when setting up XP after a good fdisk and format... Other than that I haven't used a floppy for so long.

Yodums

 

[Shamus MacNoob]

events hardware shell is set to automatic by default

 

[Shamus MacNoob]

Well go figure after all this time .... now my puter starts the floppy seek well its a new puter not the one I had when I last posted here but I checked the services and it is set to auto and when I open explorer darn floppy kicks in and buzz's for a few seconds ... would love to know how to get that to stop seems the auto setting in services dont do a thing