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What is floppy drive error?

Posted By : Jenille of Chandler-Gilbert Community College on April 4, 2007

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when i switch the pc on it is a black screen saying flooy diskette seek failure i then press f1 to start the pc and windows xp starts. From then on the keyboard and mouse dont work and the pc shuts down. This happens continuously.My pc does not have a floppy disk drive therefor i do not understand the error.

This question was answered on April 4, 2007. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.


The reason that the screen says floppy disk failure is probably because your system is looking for the floppy drive in the boot process but you do not have one To change this, boot into your cmos and go to boot order, find the floppy drive and disable it so when you boot the system your floppy drive will not be part of the boot process.

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Posted by Jenille of Chandler-Gilbert Community College on April 4, 2007

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