Removable Storate Drives dying - one after the other
From: Derek (news_at_gwinn.us)
Date: 12/01/04
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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:44:42 -0600
Recently, my removable media drives have started dying. I've gone
through two floppy drives and now, apparently, my CD-RW.
I've got a 4 year old Dell Dimension, 800Mhz PIII, 512 MB RAM. I'm
running Windows XP SP-2.
Originally, the computer started accessing the floppy drive briefly at
odd times. It also did it when I opened Windows Explorer, even though
there was no disk in the drive. I would be sitting at the computer,
and I could hear the floppy click briefly for no apparent reason.
Then when I tried to use the floppy, it couldn't read the disks. So I
bought a new floppy. It was able to read the floppy disks. But he same
random access was happening. Eventually that drive died as well. As I
rarely use the floppy drive, I just left it dead.
A couple of months back, I installed a larger hard drive and a DVD-RW.
At the same time, I installed another floppy drive because I wanted to
update they system bios and the bios on my IDE expansion card for the
160GB drive. Updating both required the use of a floppy drive.
So I updated the bios, installed XP again, updated with SP2, replaced
my DVD with the DVD-RW and got the system running.
I then physically unplugged my floppy drive. The next thing I know,
the CD-RW drive was randomly running, even when it was empty. Just a
little "click-whir" periodically.
Now it's gotten to the point that that drive can't even read discs
that it's just burnt, even though the DVD-RW will read them. I tried
uninstalling the DVD-RW and having just the CD-RW installed. No joy.
It will, however, read mass produced discs, such as games or my
Windows XP disc.
Can anyone point me to an explanation for this or give me some idea
what's going on? It's gotten really annoying and I'd like to fix it.
I've been googling for the last couple of weeks and trying the
Microsoft knowledge base. And I'm just not finding a darned thing that
is helpful.
Another odd thing is that in "Computer Management", when accessing the
"Device Management" tab for any of the listed Removable Storage
Libraries, the floppy drive also goes spastic.
Any suggestions will be appreciated. I'd really like to solve this.
-- Derek It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it doesn't take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face.
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