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Dell 3007WFP HC
I've had a 3007WFP HC for half a year now. Something that caught my interest is the card reader. When I initially plugged the reader in, i noticed it installed a 3.25 floppy disc drive that doesnt exist. I am not 100% certain that it is due to the device installation, but it is when i first noticed that the floppy was in "My Computer". I do not have a floppy device installed, and from my computer, it is running as if it existed. To me its kind of annoying to see it there. Is it like this for anyone else?
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Posted August 15th, 2007 03:00
dimsum4u,
Unplug the card reader, reboot. Is the 3.25 floppy gone?
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Posted August 15th, 2007 03:00
I figured those would be the only solutions. Either way it is resolved. I cant say for a fact, as i wasnt paying complete attention, that this resulted from the card reader device. Thanks for the help !509
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Posted August 15th, 2007 03:00
I tried twice with no luck. I even tried removing the drive in the Hardware tree, then restarting the computer. It is detected upon windows bootup and reinstalls itself. The easiest solution i found was to disable the floppy in the BIOS. However, i find it very interesting that this situation has arose. Is there any way to remove it without disabling the option in the BIOS?509
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Posted August 21st, 2007 20:00
DimSum, I got the HC for about the same length of time as you, and I ve never had a floppy drive appear in that time. Sounds like maybe you did a BIOS update, or something that reset some settings in your PC. Since I don't use a floppy, its been disabled in the BIOS for a long time now.
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Posted August 15th, 2007 03:00
You can disable it in the device manager or the bios. Those are the only two methods I know.
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