Unable to remove Floppy drive from VM.

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by lailoken, May 19, 2006.

  1. lailoken

    lailoken Bit poster

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    I'm running a win 2000 guest OS with all the patches, and after I remove the floppy from the VM profile I boot the VM, and uninstall the Floppy from "Device Manager", reboot again, and then Windows tells me that it re-installed the floppy controller (but it seems to be broken).

    What's going on here? Is there a "bios" in which I need to disable the controller?
     
  2. mikeshappell

    mikeshappell Member

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    I submitted this problem a few days ago to support and here is the response I go this morning:

    For some reasons Windows suppose Floppy drive always to be present in the computer. When Floppy is absence in your VM's configuration, Windows couldn't find it and therefore start (as a result you see the message). To avoid this message just disable floppy drive device in your Device
    Manager.

    I am not sure this is true since I don't recall this occuring on a "real" installation of Windows XP on a machine without a floppy drive.

    Mike
     

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