Floppy drive activity

[PaulBarter]

My PC every so often will try accessing the floppy drive about 3 or 4 times for no apparent reason. This can be when the PC is idle or when I am in the middle of something, it doesn't seem to mind.<br><br>Can anyone tell me why, and is there an easy way to stop it happening?

 

[voland]

Oh, the possibilities...<br><br>1. MS FindFast is running in the background (check in START-&gt;PROGRAMS-&gt;STARTUP);<br>2. You have an application opened which has been recently accessing floppy drive (e.g. - MS Office/Lotus Smartsuite apps had file opened from diskette and still have its record under FILE menu;<br>3. Anti-Virus software is checking your drives - very unlikely cause of your problems, but depends if the scheduler on it is setup in some strange way;<br>4. If 1-3 fails - check for any background apps - from STARTUP folder or CTRL+ALT+DELETE - that's a hard one since you need to know or guess which one of those might be accessing the drive.