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Annoying Problem

Joeface · 2004-02-12 15:30:12

I must have sorted this about 30 times but cant for the life of me remember how i did it the last time, Ever 5 mins , my system tries to access the floppy drive for no reason, how do i stop it form doing this , using windows 98 by the way thanks

12-02-2004 3:30pm

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Joeface

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I must have sorted this about 30 times but cant for the life of me remember how i did it the last time,

Ever 5 mins , my system tries to access the floppy drive for no reason, how do i stop it form doing this ,

using windows 98 by the way

thanks

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#2 12-02-2004 3:30pm

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pull the power cable out of your floppy drive

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#3 12-02-2004 3:33pm

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ah no, (smart arse) kinda need it the company is old and lazy , lots of stuff still on floppies

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#4 12-02-2004 3:41pm

jozi

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would it be accesing the floppy because what you are working on was stored on a floppy and it is auto-saving? i know word does this and many other programs

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#5 12-02-2004 3:43pm

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Do you have an explorer window open on the A: drive? Or possibly your anti-virus software trying to scan it?

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#6 12-02-2004 3:48pm

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no i am not using any thing , the drive is empty, and my virus scan only scans A: if a direct it to. I have had do sort on the other systems iin the building before, just went i went to do my own ..................blank

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