Re: Floppy A drive accessing too much

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From: ricardo (me_at_myself.com)
Date: 12/16/04

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    General Mailbox wrote:
    > 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
    >
    >
    It's your antivirus software. Get into the advanced options and
    de-select check floppy drive from the available menu.....


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