Slow boot up something with floppy drive?

[Bmcdanold]

Ever since my last reinstall (this morning) every time my computer starts up the light on the floppy drive comes on for about a minute and an underscore cursor blinks on a black screen.... then it proceeds to the Windows XP loader and sometimes once i get into XP it says found new device floppy drive.. does that mean my floppy drive is bad? or... whats going on? Its never done this before now :-/

[DarrylDWoods]

Bmcdonald:

Go into the BIOS settings, find and disable any settings to search for a new floppy at boot-up.

You can also set the system to go straight to the hard drive instead of looking to the floppy drive for an operating system.

Best wishes

[Budfred]

Have you checked Device Manager to see what it says about the floppy's properties? I would look there before starting to mess with the Bios settings, although you can always go and change it back.

Budfred