RE: floppy disk behavior (when empty)

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From: Lycan (Lycan_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:13:07 -0800

I guess that there is really no point in telling you to "not click" on an
empty drive!

It happens to all of us, at times.

"Emilio" wrote:

> For some reason, my machine searches the floppy drive for about 35 seconds
> when I navigate to that drive (through Windows Explorer) and the drive
> happens to be empty. All the while it searches, the floppy drive is
> chattering and an hourglass is displayed and I can't interrupt the process.
> It's very annoying. However, when I reboot the machine and do the same thing,
> it only searches the drive for about a half second and immediately brings up
> the dialog that says, 'Please insert a disk...' This is the behavior I was
> expecting, but it is temporary for me. Has anyone run into this? And was
> there a fix?
>
> My machine: WinXP Pro version 2002 SP1, Intel P4 2.8GHz, 1GB RAM
>
> Thanks,
> Emilio
> Portland, OR
>

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