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Spooky floppy drive

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by sleyba

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Why would a computer at different times during the day have the floppy drive act like it was searching for a disk. This is quite annoying to my user and seems to be getting worse.

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by syscokid

Could be Microsoft Find Fast, a totally useless program for most users. Remove it from startup and/or disable it in Control Panel.

by sleyba

This seemed like a good place to start. Have tried it and so far it has taken care of the problem. THANK YOU.

by glen_mcleod

It could also be your virus scanner. Check the settings. You may be set up to automaticaly scan disks periodicaly or during idle CPU time.

Glen

by sleyba

I don't think this was the case on this one but I will keep this in mind for future reference. Thank you.

by pcjockey2000

In my experience the floppy seek generally starts after someone has saved files to floppy from a program like MS Word that keeps a "quick list" of recent files. Whenever the system tries to refresh it's recent file list, it searches the floppy for those files. If the floppy has been removed the search takes quite a while as if you had opened My Computer and double clicked on the A drive with no disk in it. The other posted solutions are also good possibilities.

Hope this helps.

by sleyba

Thanks for your response, all information is good to know. Never no when it will be needed.

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