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Noisy Floppy Drive

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by abadillo Apr 10, 2001 last reply Oct 5, 2001

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The floppy drive in my PC starts spinning by itself once in a while (about two or threee times a day, maybe more often). There is no apparent problem, because does not give me any errors and the floppy works good, but the noise is annoying and I am afraid that with time the floppy drive will go bad. Seems like is schedule to try a back up to a floppy disk in certain schedule. What can I do to fix this problem?

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by barmaley Apr 10, 2001

try to run in Safe Mode for a day
if it SW checking FDD then it shoudn't happen in Safe Mode
if it is HW issue then it will do even in Safe Mode

by abadillo Apr 16, 2001

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by roland63 Apr 10, 2001

If you have an anti-virus program, that's probably your culprit - disable the feature in the program and you're set.

Also, if you begin to experience problems with files you've put on floppy, in other words, those floppies are unreliable - replace that drive (try a new batch of floppies first).

You DON'T want to find out you have a bad floppy drive when you need its help the most!

They're cheap to replace anyways, $20 to $30

Good luck.

by abadillo Apr 16, 2001

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by dmiles Apr 10, 2001

Loook at the Anti-virus configuration to see if it is scheduled to scan at certain times,then you can go to my documents and delete the list in my documents folder and see if this will clear up the problem

by abadillo Apr 16, 2001

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by darkchilde Apr 11, 2001

If task scheduler is running, or another scheduling program see if any of those try to access the floppy. antivirus programs have scheduling, Win98 has Task scheduler... Check the backup program in Win98 maybe it is trying to backup some files on floppy?
Hope this helps.

by abadillo Apr 16, 2001

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by jctech Apr 11, 2001

If you are running Windows 98, click on the start button, select Run, and type msconfig in the Open dialog box and click OK. Select the Startup tab, and look for a selection called "FindFast". Click the box beside it to remove the checkmark, then close and reboot. That should stop the periodic searches of the floppy drive. If FindFast is running, it will do a search of all drives and files every 2 hours and update itself. This is designed to make your system operate more efficiently in locating files when you open them.