re: Possible Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 9:46 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Otis
(5 messages posted)
Don't know if this will help, but the following links seemed to talk about this sort
of problem and how to stop it:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=272242
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=185619
I found both links at:
http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/diskdrv.htm
--Otis
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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