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34197	2002-02-03 20:35:00	Why does A Drive come on from time to time while working on my PC on any program without a disk inserted in it. I admit it is not a serious problem but it gets annoying hearing trying to access something that it's not there. I appreciate your HELP. Thank you	Guest (0)
34198	2002-02-03 22:21:00	Usually the symptoms suggest you opened a file directly off the floppy or saved a file directly to the floppy. In both those cases, your software may well have a 'recently accessed' section in the File menu showing the 10 most recent files for example. Whenever the software is run, it attempts to verify that the files listed in the recent list are there. In doing so, if one of those files happened to be on the floppy disk, the drive will be checked. If there's a disk in the drive, the access light will illuminate and the drive will seek a couple of times. If, on the other hand, there is no disk in the drive, the drive will 'hunt', making that awful noise. That's just the operating system's way of ensuring there really is no disk in the drive; it double checks in case the disk's data is just harder to read than normal. Windows itself will do floppy disk accesses without you asking if a file from the floppy appears on Windows' own 'Recent' files list. The simplest way to avoid this happening is to copy the file from the floppy to a directory on your hard drive before you open it to work on it, and save it back to that directory when you're done. Then copy the file back over to the floppy. That's what I do, and it works. Note that floppy disk activity can also be a result of you anti-virus software checking the disk out. That's the price you pay for security. :-) However, I think the former explanation is the correct one in your case.	Guest (0)
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