Answer

Ok, in the bios, go to the part that mentions drives,

Drives
Diskette Drive	Identifies and defines the floppy drive attached to the FLOPPY connector on the system board. The options restrict identification of drives to USB only, Internal only, or none (Off). The Read Only option restricts the ability to boot from any floppy device.

 

Turn the floppy to none, and if the is an option to seek floppy on start up change that to off.

 

Then, there may be a floppy option in the onboard devices section, turn that off (sometimes it may say FDC, that's the floppy controller).

 

Then in the boot sequence section:

 

Boot Sequence

The computer attempts to boot from the sequence of devices specified in this list.

 

Make floppy the last choice.

 

That should do it, here's a refeerence document:

 

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dimE520/en/SM_EN/syssetup.htm#wp1055144

 

 

 

Let me know how you make out....

 

Edited by Molinari on 7/19/2009 at 2:06 PM

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