Solve : Floppy Drive Noise?

1.	Solve : Floppy Drive Noise?
Answer» THERES no disk in there, but it makes noises. What's wrong with it? Quote from: DJES86 on August 16, 2007, 05:33:56 PM Theres no disk in there, but it makes noises. What's wrong with it? When? All the time, or just during boot up? Just occasionallyAny help? It happens when loading THINGS etc....Win 95/98/ME Or what Random accessing of the floppy drive is common in Win 9x and is mostly caused by a rogue DRIVER DRVWQ117.VXD Renaming as .OLD might fix this. Google for lots of info.My old computer does this (new one don't have a floppy drive), I always thought it was the antivirus programs looking for viruses randomly.Quote from: DJES86 on August 16, 2007, 07:09:09 PM Any help? It happens when loading things etc.... It could be a lot of different things. Dusty mentioned something above that I'd never heard before. I've used 98 for a long time now, and never had your problem, so that's probably why I never heard of it... never needed to look. Be sure to do what Dusty suggested. Once upon a time, I do remember that either some program or function was left in a default state such that the first thing it did was to attempt to access the A: drive. Therefore, every time it was used, the first thing I would get would be the jiggy-jiggy-jiggy noise when the drive spun. The solution was simple. Access something on the C: drive with that function or program. Apparently it defaulted to wherever it was last used. You've got something that is hitting your A: drive. We will assume that is not you clicking on it. It could be some program you are running, either all the time or some of the time. You'd have to be observant and narrow it down. It could be some infection. Again, you'd have to hunt it down. You are running some good AV software, aren't you? kept updated? How about Anti-Spyware? up to date? recently scanned? In other words, are you sure you have no unwanted crud running? You SAID it happens when "loading things". Describe that more, please. EXACTLY what do you mean?

Answer» THERES no disk in there, but it makes noises. What's wrong with it? Quote from: DJES86 on August 16, 2007, 05:33:56 PM

Theres no disk in there, but it makes noises. What's wrong with it?

When?

All the time, or just during boot up?

Just occasionallyAny help? It happens when loading THINGS etc....Win 95/98/ME Or what

Random accessing of the floppy drive is common in Win 9x and is mostly caused by a rogue DRIVER DRVWQ117.VXD Renaming as .OLD might fix this.

Google for lots of info.My old computer does this (new one don't have a floppy drive), I always thought it was the antivirus programs looking for viruses randomly.Quote from: DJES86 on August 16, 2007, 07:09:09 PM

Any help? It happens when loading things etc....

It could be a lot of different things.

Dusty mentioned something above that I'd never heard before. I've used 98 for a long time now, and never had your problem, so that's probably why I never heard of it... never needed to look.

Be sure to do what Dusty suggested.

Once upon a time, I do remember that either some program or function was left in a default state such that the first thing it did was to attempt to access the A: drive. Therefore, every time it was used, the first thing I would get would be the jiggy-jiggy-jiggy noise when the drive spun.

The solution was simple. Access something on the C: drive with that function or program. Apparently it defaulted to wherever it was last used.

You've got something that is hitting your A: drive. We will assume that is not you clicking on it.
It could be some program you are running, either all the time or some of the time. You'd have to be observant and narrow it down.

It could be some infection. Again, you'd have to hunt it down.
You are running some good AV software, aren't you? kept updated?
How about Anti-Spyware? up to date? recently scanned?
In other words, are you sure you have no unwanted crud running?

You SAID it happens when "loading things".
Describe that more, please. EXACTLY what do you mean?

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