Unable to remove Floppy Drive

[john_CE]

Hi Guys,

We can't seem to remove a floppy drive on our VM.

We have tried so many times on removing it, but it keeps on coming back.

So we just try to disable it on BIOS, lo and behold, there's no disable option

This as been causing some issues with our Altaro Backup, as it does not take an Application backup due to this:

Error 12/5/2018 5:15:08 AM VSS 12289 None – Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error DeviceIoControl(\\?\fdc#generic_floppy_drive#6&2bc13940&0&0#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b} – 0000000000000538,0×00560000,0000000000000000,0,000001F790975F90,4096,⁰). hr = 0×80070001, Incorrect function.

Error 12/5/2018 4:45:50 AM VSS 12289 None – Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error DeviceIoControl(\\?\fdc#generic_floppy_drive#6&2bc13940&0&0#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b} – 000000000000055C,0×00560000,0000000000000000,0,0000028292B56260,4096,⁰). hr = 0×80070001, Incorrect function.

Error 12/5/2018 2:30:01 AM VSS 12289 None – Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error DeviceIoControl(\\?\fdc#generic_floppy_drive#6&2bc13940&0&0#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b} – 0000000000000540,0×00560000,0000000000000000,0,000001E3EF393440,4096,⁰). hr = 0×80070001, Incorrect function.

Any ideas on how can we remove the floppy device on our VM? We're on ESXI 6.5.

Thanks!

[daphnissov]

Although it doesn't show in the BIOS menu, highlight the floppy and keep pressing spacebar until it rolls over to Disabled.

[giox]

Same problem here, solved putting Disabled in BIOS Setup -> Advanced -> Floppy disk controller:

And the floppy disk disappeared from windows guest.