I know this has been on here before, but I say we keep posting until MS
fixes it. I want it fixed in Vista so I'm posting here. (Please ignore the
message if it is already fixed.)



1. I don't have a floppy drive in my computer. Yet whenever I need to
install a driver, update a driver, or install a program from the Add/Remove
Programs (those that run TS know what I mean), I'm forced to wait 10 seconds
for WinXP/03 to look for my floppy drive. Even after that it brings me to
the browse window defaulted to "A:\". Click Browse at that point and it
scans the non-existant drive again. The truth is, I don't ever install
anything off a CD either. It's a business machine. I install everything but
the network driver off the network. It should remember the last place it
installed something from. It should also be smart enough to know that I
don't have a floppy device. It's even disabled in the BIOS, yet Windows
somehow loads the floppy drivers just in case it needs to search for A:
apparently.

2. My RAID drivers are not on a floppy. I hate floppies. I have one floppy
drive for the whole company that I move between machines for RAID driver
installs. And why do I do that? Well, Win03 requires HD installation drivers
on a floppy. Vista's installer needs thumb drive drivers. It also needs to
allow me to swap CDs for a quick second and load some drivers off an
alternate CD. Ideally it would allow me to browse all the drives detected to
that point. In fact, I should be able to install a disk driver, then browse
that disk, then install another driver, etc. It don't think that would be
very hard. The installer can put enough of itself into RAM so that it can do
without its install CD for a few minutes.

Eh, sorry for posting twice. MS's website said there was an error with the
first attempt. Apparently there wasn't that much of an error. And sorry for
sending yet a third post for an apology. I don't even know if it's
appropriate to apologize on newsgroups because that means there's yet
another questionably-on-topic post for people to read. Maybe somebody can
set me straight.

> 1. I don't have a floppy drive in my computer. Yet whenever I need to
> install a driver, update a driver, or install a program from the
> Add/Remove Programs (those that run TS know what I mean), I'm forced to
> wait 10 seconds for WinXP/03 to look for my floppy drive. Even after that
> it brings me to the browse window defaulted to "A:\". Click Browse at that
> point and it scans the non-existant drive again. The truth is, I don't
> ever install anything off a CD either. It's a business machine. I install
> everything but the network driver off the network. It should remember the
> last place it installed something from. It should also be smart enough to
> know that I don't have a floppy device. It's even disabled in the BIOS,
> yet Windows somehow loads the floppy drivers just in case it needs to
> search for A: apparently.
>
> 2. My RAID drivers are not on a floppy. I hate floppies. I have one floppy
> drive for the whole company that I move between machines for RAID driver
> installs. And why do I do that? Well, Win03 requires HD installation
> drivers on a floppy. Vista's installer needs thumb drive drivers. It also
> needs to allow me to swap CDs for a quick second and load some drivers off
> an alternate CD. Ideally it would allow me to browse all the drives
> detected to that point. In fact, I should be able to install a disk
> driver, then browse that disk, then install another driver, etc. It don't
> think that would be very hard. The installer can put enough of itself into
> RAM so that it can do without its install CD for a few minutes.
>

It's a known bug in the web-based newsreader.

"Brannon King" <brannonking@yahoo> wrote in message
news:eXNM0dAuGHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Eh, sorry for posting twice. MS's website said there was an error with the
> first attempt. Apparently there wasn't that much of an error. And sorry
> for sending yet a third post for an apology. I don't even know if it's
> appropriate to apologize on newsgroups because that means there's yet
> another questionably-on-topic post for people to read. Maybe somebody can
> set me straight.
>
>> 1. I don't have a floppy drive in my computer. Yet whenever I need to
>> install a driver, update a driver, or install a program from the
>> Add/Remove Programs (those that run TS know what I mean), I'm forced to
>> wait 10 seconds for WinXP/03 to look for my floppy drive. Even after that
>> it brings me to the browse window defaulted to "A:\". Click Browse at
>> that point and it scans the non-existant drive again. The truth is, I
>> don't ever install anything off a CD either. It's a business machine. I
>> install everything but the network driver off the network. It should
>> remember the last place it installed something from. It should also be
>> smart enough to know that I don't have a floppy device. It's even
>> disabled in the BIOS, yet Windows somehow loads the floppy drivers just
>> in case it needs to search for A: apparently.
>>
>> 2. My RAID drivers are not on a floppy. I hate floppies. I have one
>> floppy drive for the whole company that I move between machines for RAID
>> driver installs. And why do I do that? Well, Win03 requires HD
>> installation drivers on a floppy. Vista's installer needs thumb drive
>> drivers. It also needs to allow me to swap CDs for a quick second and
>> load some drivers off an alternate CD. Ideally it would allow me to
>> browse all the drives detected to that point. In fact, I should be able
>> to install a disk driver, then browse that disk, then install another
>> driver, etc. It don't think that would be very hard. The installer can
>> put enough of itself into RAM so that it can do without its install CD
>> for a few minutes.
>>
>
>

Better use an USB stick
Kind regards,
Tony Thijs
Oriolus

"Brannon King" <brannonking@yahoo> wrote in message
news:ODFufZAuGHA.2392@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>I know this has been on here before, but I say we keep posting until MS
>fixes it. I want it fixed in Vista so I'm posting here. (Please ignore the
>message if it is already fixed.)
>
> 1. I don't have a floppy drive in my computer. Yet whenever I need to
> install a driver, update a driver, or install a program from the
> Add/Remove Programs (those that run TS know what I mean), I'm forced to
> wait 10 seconds for WinXP/03 to look for my floppy drive. Even after that
> it brings me to the browse window defaulted to "A:\". Click Browse at that
> point and it scans the non-existant drive again. The truth is, I don't
> ever install anything off a CD either. It's a business machine. I install
> everything but the network driver off the network. It should remember the
> last place it installed something from. It should also be smart enough to
> know that I don't have a floppy device. It's even disabled in the BIOS,
> yet Windows somehow loads the floppy drivers just in case it needs to
> search for A: apparently.
>
> 2. My RAID drivers are not on a floppy. I hate floppies. I have one floppy
> drive for the whole company that I move between machines for RAID driver
> installs. And why do I do that? Well, Win03 requires HD installation
> drivers on a floppy. Vista's installer needs thumb drive drivers. It also
> needs to allow me to swap CDs for a quick second and load some drivers off
> an alternate CD. Ideally it would allow me to browse all the drives
> detected to that point. In fact, I should be able to install a disk
> driver, then browse that disk, then install another driver, etc. It don't
> think that would be very hard. The installer can put enough of itself into
> RAM so that it can do without its install CD for a few minutes.
>