Disabling floppy drive

[jonpdrew]

I have an old Gateway 450 Pentium 3. I added in a newer dvd drive a while back and for some reason I had to unplug my floppy drive (super drive) or the dvd player would not work. So for quite sometime now the computer looks for the floppy on start up and I need to push the ESC key so it will boot up. Do I need to get into the bios and switch something off so the machine does not go looking for the floppy? I don't need the floppy and I am planning on revamping the computer a bit for my daughter since I have a new Dell XPS coming to replace this dinosaur. It's still a good computer and for her it's more than enough since she's only in 1st grade. Any help would be much appreciated.

Jon

 

[NortonES2]

Enter the BIOS and alter the order of the boot devices. Unfortunately I cant tell you how to get into BIOS on a Gateway probably F2 or F10.

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[BFOJ]

Two other thoughts. In the BIOS, disable or change the Diskette drive A: to none (if that's an option). Remove the Diskette drive from the computer.

 

[ceh4702]

Just unplug the cable and power.

If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.

 

[dakota81]

Either set disk drive option to none, or if there's an option to "halt on error", select "All but floppy", or "nothing

 

[jonpdrew]

I got it...I had to type "disable" for the A:...I never did that for some reason. Thanks for the posts.

Jon