High-Capacity Floppy Disk Drive (sfloppy) Service Defaults in Windows 11
Default Settings
| Startup type: | Manual |
| Display name: | High-Capacity Floppy Disk Drive |
| Service name: | sfloppy |
| Service type: | kernel |
| Error control: | normal |
| Path: | %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\sfloppy.sys |
| Registry key: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sfloppy |
Default Behavior
High-Capacity Floppy Disk Drive is a kernel driver. In Windows 11 it starts only if the user, an application or another service starts it. If High-Capacity Floppy Disk Drive fails to start, the failure details will be recorded into Event Log. Then Windows 11 should boot up and notify the user about the sfloppy service startup failure.
Restore Default Startup Configuration of High-Capacity Floppy Disk Drive
1. Run the Command Prompt as an administrator.
2. Copy the command below, paste it into the command window and press ENTER:
sc config sfloppy start= demand
3. Close the command window and restart the computer.
The sfloppy service is using the sfloppy.sys file that is located in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers directory. If the file is removed or corrupted, read this article to restore its original version from Windows 11 installation media.