re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 3:30 pm
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Posted by burgmeister
(1 messages posted)
I had a similar problem that was caused by a self launched program trying to access
my floppy drive. The problem could be resolved by doing the following:
1) Monitor the processes running in task manager to see if a program shows an increase
in activity when the floppy is attempting to read the drive.
2) End the program to see if that stops the problem.
3) If it does, go to the startup folder in the programs folder in the start menu
folder for each relavent user and see if a link to the culprit program is present.
4) If the link is present remove it. If not, check to see if you are infected with
a virus.
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 12:57 pm, Bob Harvey wrote:
>I have a comment about Stop
>Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive:
>None of the items mentioned in the article appeared to work for my random floppy
>seeks in Windows XP. I was getting quite frustrated till I also noticed the floppy
>would access every time I opened a hard drive or CD folder window. If I opened
more
>folders inside this window, no seek, but close the main window, and it again activated
>the floppy.
>
>I finally traced it down to the WinXP setting for running folder windows in a separate
>process. Once I unclicked that check box under folder options, the problem disappeared.
> FYI.
>
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