My own solution to 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Sunday, March 13, 2005 at 1:58 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bigboy
(1 messages posted)
Re: Stop
Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive:
I tried everything above, and it didn't seem to work. However, I did notice that
when I checked the PATH environment variable on the command line, something was adding
my floppy drive to the path. It wasn't in my Advanced settings in the System control
panel. But I did see it when I ran CMD.EXE and typed "set" to see all the environment
variables.
However, after doing some searching around, I found that my partition with Win98
bootfiles had an autoexec.bat file there. And that is what was adding a:\ to my path!
Once I commented it out the set path line, my floppy grinding went away.
So, for some reason, WinXP was executing that autoexec.bat file that wasn't sitting
on the system partition(!), which added a:\ to my path, and caused all the grinding
noise whenever I ran a program.
So, if none of the above solutions work, check your PATH environment variable on
the command line to see if your floppy drive is on it. If it is, it could be an autoexec.bat
file sitting somewhere....
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