SMARTDrive Shows Status of Nonexistent Floppy Drives

ID: Q88145

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows versions 3.1, 3.11

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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Version : WINDOWS:3.1,3.11
Platform : WINDOWS
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