Why is my Floppy Drive being Accessed?
Most of us are using Windows PCs and sometimes some of your get into a situation where your floppy drive is randomly accessed every few minutes even though it has no floppy drive inserted. This is not dangerous for a computer system but is off course annoying to almost everyone. This occurs when some program (You are running on your computer, it could be any) considers that something should be written (or backed up) on a diskette.
One of the cases, there can be a document in your recent history folder (Documents) that might be on a diskette once. Here are the steps to clear the document history file Windows uses:
- Click Start
- Click Settings
- Click Taskbar
- In the Documents area, click Clear
- Click OK
Other causes of the problem:
- The Find Fast utility (Microsoft Office) may be running and trying to access your floppy disk drive. Removing it from the startup group could control this and also you can do so by disabling the starting of Find Fast using control Panel. Microsoft Office installs Find Fast automatically.
- Another possibility is that system agent is running some program, if you are not sure about this, click on System Agent icon in system tray and follow the instructions.
- If you have Anti-Virus software installed then it could be trying to access your drives (it could be a regular scan check). Checking the setup of your anti-virus software can help you getting rid of this problem.
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