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How to remove Floppy drive icon from Windows Explorer?

Mayur Agarwal by Mayur Agarwal
December 25, 2021
in How To's, Tips 'n' Tricks

All Windows by default, show a Floppy drive icon in Windows Explorer (My computer) even if there is no floppy drive installed on your machine.

Before

After

This also happened in my Windows 7 RC, which showed a Floppy drive even there’s no floppy drive on my PC. Below is an easy way to hide that boring floppy drive icon from Explorer.

1) Just open the Device Manager in Windows. Use shortcut, by typing devmgmt.msc in Run or search bar.

2) You’ll see an entry there as “Floppy disk drives”. Open the properties of its subentry which is named as Floppy disk drive.

Open its sub-entry

3) Under Properties, go to the Driver tab and select the Disable button. It’ll ask for confirmation, click Yes. Then click OK.

Disable the device

4) That’s all. Now you will not see the Floppy drive icon in Windows Explorer. You can easily enable it later if required.

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Mayur Agarwal is the founder and editor-in-chief of WebTrickz. As a Technology enthusiast and an Internet addict, he loves sharing useful How To’s and Tips & Tricks.

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Comments 12

  1. Jaspreet says:
    14 years ago

    Nice Trick. Thanks 🙂

    Reply
  2. Jeannie says:
    14 years ago

    not only for floppy icon, but other drives you never want to show
    have always used hdhide.exe
    free

    safe, effective,small in size, and fast
    [code]

    [/code]

    Reply
  3. Bobby says:
    14 years ago

    Thanks for sharing this!

    Reply
  4. Pavan Kumar says:
    14 years ago

    Well, many tweaking programs are available.. I never encountered such problem that a non existent drive showing up in My Computer. Anyways, I am not a win7 user yet.. 😛

    Reply
  5. Deon says:
    14 years ago

    very helpful

    Reply
  6. Anuska says:
    14 years ago

    Thanks for the information

    Reply
  7. Neo says:
    14 years ago

    Thank you very much….Wanted to do this since ages!
    By the way im following u on twitter!

    Reply
  8. Potato says:
    13 years ago

    Thanks heaps for this, I was worried I was going to have to do something complicated, and that nonexistent drive was really bothering me. Simple fix!

    Reply
  9. Benny says:
    13 years ago

    Thanks…..

    Reply
  10. pradeep says:
    13 years ago

    thanq very much……….

    Reply
  11. Nestor says:
    12 years ago

    Nice, I just clicked on my floppy drive on my floppy-less computer and had to wait a few seconds for windows to figure out there was no floppy to read, so I decided to do something about it – 10 seconds later google sent me here, and 30 more the floppy was disabled. Thank you!

    Reply
  12. Vinesh says:
    10 years ago

    Thanks 🙂 very easy to disable

    Reply

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