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10-02-2003, 08:27 PM
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Something's accessing my A: drive (floppy)
This started happening about 4 months ago. I thought my floppy drive was going kaput, so I disabled it. Recently I bought a new floppy and installed it. Everything was fine for about two days. Then all of a sudden something started trying to access it again (without a disk in it). When I put a disk in (to keep it from chattering) all it does is read it for about 3 seconds.
It also seems to react to Internet Explorer. I just realized when I click on a link, it accesses the drive. On TechTV's web site, when I go over a "Flash Roll over button", It accesses the drive. Well, I'm looking in Explorer's settings now...
Any Ideas?
Incog
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10-02-2003, 08:33 PM
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Oh, wow.... That's very interesting... I've seen AV access FDD on starup and shutdown. Or oldr Windows versions where you left a floppy disk in the drive and you pulled it out during access it would continually seek on the FDD. However, not when accessing a web link through IE...
What Windows version you running?
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10-02-2003, 08:42 PM
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have you ever downloaded movies? (you dont have to answer but if so read the following)
one of my friend's "friends" was bragging (about a year ago) that he downloaded a ton of movies, then would insert one of his "codes" they either make the processor run at 100% or the randomly access the A: drive... if so, you gotta find the movie, delete it, and hope it gets rid of it
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10-02-2003, 08:43 PM
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Try saving a Notepad document. Just a blank will do. The Save in: panel will open and I bet it will open to the floppy. Change to another directory and save the file. It might be remembering a last failed Save action and is trying to repeat it.
Worth a try.
Cheers!
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10-02-2003, 09:02 PM
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Boy this can get annoying quick!!! Windows XP Home. Notepad and wordpad both tried saving to my desktop. When I clicked file... it again accessed the floppy drive. Lots of things I do, does. When I click the Start menu -> All programs and then move into the programs, it does. Thanks tho Beemer.. that was a great guess... as for movies, I don't have any currently on this system. I have run spybot search and destroy - nothing, and Norton Antivirus (2003) - nothing... both are updated as of today.
My best James Kirk impression... Must Find Answer!
Incog
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10-02-2003, 09:04 PM
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people still use floppies?!?! man, that was so eighties.... just kiddin, the floppy is/was the greatest piece of hardware ever
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10-02-2003, 09:08 PM
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Floppy will be around for many more years to come in my opinion...
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10-02-2003, 09:15 PM
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It does this when I:
When I click on a link (html)
When I select anything from the File, Edit, View, Favorites, etc.
When I mouse over any links that are "mouse over enabled"
Randomly (no specific time pattern)
Incog
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10-02-2003, 10:24 PM
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Fixed!!! (sort of)
I have Norton Systemworks 2003 installed on the system. Disabling auto protect stops the A: drive from being accessed all the time.
It is a problem with the auto protect! I have tried changing every one of the options in config to no avail. I have sent a support request to NAV and hopefully they can help. I'll also post the response when I get it.
Thanks guys,
Incog
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