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Solve : Floppy has life of its own?

Answer» HELLO everyone
the other day my floppy drive decided it needed to run I guess, every few minuts or so it turns on, lights up, makes noise, then stops, I have checked to see if something was trying to access it but did not see anything, I tried putting a floppy in to see if that helped but no good, any ideas??

THANKS
DaveThanks for your help. I ran my virus protection and no that it is okay. But, will try checking in the CMOS and let you know. Thanks again.hello? sorry about the wait ok has ur drive run anything latly?

Try feeding it?It's likely that something on your computer is randomly trying to access or scan the floppy drive for diskettes. Often this is caused by a virus scanners. Many virus scanners will randomly check the floppy disk drive to see if there is a diskette in the drive and if so scan the diskette for viruses. However, often this only occurs at boot or when the computer is being SHUT down.

If your computer is randomly doing this frequently as your using the computer you may have some other type of program on the computer attempting to copy something on the floppy.

Boot the computer in safe mode and see if the issue also occurs in safe mode. If it does then it's likely something with the floppy drive and not SOFTWARE, in which case you may wish to replace the floppy drive or live with the issue. If the issue does not happen in safe mode then there is some other program running while in normal Windows that is causing the issue.

Make sure you virus scanner is up-to-date as some viruses often attempt to write themselves to any drive on the computer including the floppy drive. Otherwise see if you can determine what program you have open that is attempting to write information to the floppy drive and see if it can be disabled.Ugh.. just realized this was a 2004 post.. bumped up.. Quote from: wefr0 on AUGUST 29, 2007, 07:45:26 PM
hello? sorry about the wait ok has ur drive run anything latly?

Try feeding it?

Lol, sorry for the wait? Three years is quite a long wait.


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