Re: Floppy A drive accessing too much

From: Ted Zieglar (teddyz_at_notmail.com)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:32:33 -0500

Did I say to format the diskette? 

-- 
Ted Zieglar
"General Mailbox" <nospam@home.net> wrote in message
news:uf9u7Hu4EHA.3648@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Thanks Ted.
> Sounds good, but it didn't do the trick.  I have done as advised and no
> change.  I inserted a disk and did a full format of a disk, closed the
> window and rebooted.  No change.  I hope it isn't looking for one
particular
> volume number of the disk because I've likely reformated it by now.
> Is there another way?
> Kevin
>
> "Ted Zieglar" <teddyz@notmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OLG4dnt4EHA.3908@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > At some point, you removed a diskette from the drive before the computer
> was
> > finished with it. Now your computer is looking for closure. It wants to
> put
> > this event behind it, so it can get on with life.
> >
> > Put a diskette in the floppy drive. Go to My Computer and double-click
on
> > the 31/2 Floppy icon. Close the window when it opens. When the light
next
> to
> > your floppy drive has gone out, remove the diskette. Done.
> > --
> > Ted Zieglar
> >
> >
> > "General Mailbox" <nospam@home.net> wrote in message
> > news:%237H63it4EHA.1260@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > Greetings.
> > > My internal floppy A drive is checking for information at just about
> every
> > > access I request to my C drive.  I noticed the additional checks, but
> > since
> > > they were short in time, I didn't do anything about it.  But now that
I
> > wish
> > > to do a full virus scan using installed software, the floppy drive is
> > > constantly banging around during the successful scan of the C drive.
I
> > made
> > > sure to select only C drive to be scanned.  Within the past month,
I've
> > > added a few software installations which may be the problem, but I
have
> no
> > > restore points beyond 4 days ago.  Is there something I can do to
change
> > > (reset) the drive to act as it should without having to work backwards
> by
> > > uninstalling programs?
> > > Thank you so kindly.
> > > Kevin
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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