Microsoft KB Archive/88145

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SMARTDrive Shows Status of Nonexistent Floppy Drives

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Q88145

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows versions 3.1, 3.11

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SYMPTOMS
SMARTDrive (SMARTDRV.EXE) version 4.0 from Windows 3.1 shows the status of floppy drives A and B, even if no floppy disk drives are installed.

WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, specifically instruct SMARTDrive not to cache the missing floppy drives. For example, type the following at the MS-DOS command prompt:

"c:\windows\smartdrv.exe a- b-" Additional query words: 3.10 3.11 smartdrive diskette caching missing removed non-existent nonexistent

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Technology : kbWin3xSearch kbWin310 kbWin311