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| Thread ID: 112860 | 2010-09-24 21:48:00 | XP Home floppy problem | ianhnz (4263) | Press F1 |
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| 1139417 | 2010-09-24 21:48:00 | :help: I am running, a now, aged XP Home computer but have all the updates, firewall, anti this and anti that running . Question I have is every now and then my A drive (floppy drive) cranks into life, for a few seconds and then closes itself :badpc: . There are no disks in drive and doesn't get a lot of use . I have no idea why and was after some insight . (I remember years ago, early 1990's and Dos days, our work computers had a command, in the Autoexec . bat, that switched the A drive to a folder on the hard drive . So if you tried to access, said A drive, would access said folder) . Folder is now a directory, or some-it . . . Thanks . . (PS . I posted this on TM and upset a few, so hope it doesn't upset here :xmouth:) . Ian |
ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 1139418 | 2010-09-24 21:54:00 | Cant say I've ever heard of an entry in autoexec.bat switching a floppy to a folder. Whats the point if you hardly use it? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1139419 | 2010-09-24 22:03:00 | there was a prank program that was running about years ago that made a floppy drive start up every so often, but it was more in the 98 era. Open MSCONFIG - look for fast find ( part of MS office) if its ticked untick it, see if it makes any difference. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1139420 | 2010-09-24 22:17:00 | Make sure you have don't have shortcuts on the desktop to the floppy drive or any files that were on a floppy disk. :pf1mobmini: |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1139421 | 2010-09-24 22:38:00 | Could be a lot of reasons. Some Antivirus software can do it. Avira AntiVir does. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1139422 | 2010-09-24 23:34:00 | Go into your BIOS and disable Floppy Seek. | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1139423 | 2010-09-25 00:48:00 | Could be a lot of reasons. Some Antivirus software can do it. Avira AntiVir does. I use the Comodo security suite. |
ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 1139424 | 2010-09-25 00:49:00 | Make sure you have don't have shortcuts on the desktop to the floppy drive or any files that were on a floppy disk. :pf1mobmini: No, very little, on my desk top.:badpc: |
ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 1139425 | 2010-09-25 00:53:00 | there was a prank program that was running about years ago that made a floppy drive start up every so often, but it was more in the 98 era. Open MSCONFIG - look for fast find ( part of MS office) if its ticked untick it, see if it makes any difference. Just had a look and no reference to fast find. I think I took that out ages ago. As I was typing this A drive burped.. |
ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 1139426 | 2010-09-25 02:01:00 | Disable the FDD in your BIOS. | pctek (84) | ||
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