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Floppy drive grinds / system slows down

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by pgillan

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My floppy drive will sporadically grind with no disk in it and my system freezes up while this is happening. What is causing this?

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by pgillan

Indexing applies to local or shared drives. I could disable A: drive if a disk was inserted, but that is not when the grinding and slow up happens. Thanks any way.

by anejako

What are you doing when it grinds? Are you trying to download files or something else?

by anejako

What are you doing when it grinds? Are you trying to download files or something else?

by true_texan

It sounds like you have a reference to your floppy drive either linked to an icon or in your "recent files." Norton System Works has a utility that will search for and correct these problems.

by pgillan

The first answer I received from haha corrected my problem. Unfortunately, when I first tried it, I did not disable my indexing properly so that is why I rejected that answer. It has proven to be the correct resolution.

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