@Kieran, perhaps your BIOS is incorrectly set to indicate that the floppy drive is present when there is no physical floppy drive present?
Often an incorrectly set BIOS can cause this problem. If not, other things to try are to defragment NTFS and FAT file systems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155047 Title: gparted hangs "Scanning all Devices" forever (because of /dev/fd0) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gparted/+bug/155047/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
