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Why does “Scanning all devices…” take exceedingly long on some computers?

April 26, 2017Computers exceedingly

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Why does “Scanning all devices…” take exceedingly long on some computers?

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1. Check the BIOS settings. This problem can be caused when the BIOS indicates that a floppy drive is present, but no physical floppy drive is installed. 2. A work around is to start gparted from the command line and pass the name of the device(s) you wish to partition.