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Floppy keeps seeking.

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by acsbillw

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Why would a floppy keep seeking every 10 minutes? This is a Windows 2000 system and from the work I've done on it no programs seem to be pointing to it.

Any thoughts would help.

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by dklippert

Try cleaning out your most recently used documents.
Start>Task bar And Start Menu Properties Advanced tab.

by legj1

If you have anti-virus software installed then go into Properties and uncheck the 3.5 floppy scan. If you bring in a lot of outside floppies you may want to re-think shutting this off. However, most people don't use floppies anymore...

by jhinrichs

Due to the other comments and answers. Have you looked on what is starting up when your computer starts up. In short, I mean in the startup group, win.ini and in the regirstry run statements. You can look at all of them using the tool msconfig in9.x versions of Windows. If any of those programs are pointing to the a drive the system will try and load from it and might be trying over and over again. I would start there because antivirus and documents have been ruled out.

by acsbillw

Your comments sent me in the right direction. What I ended up doing was going into regedit and doing a find on a: then deleting the ones I thought could be causeing the problem. Thats how I ended up fixing it.

Thanks

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