Full Version: A: drive starts up and

From: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#1]
 19 May 2006
To: ALL

Runs by itself when not in use. This started earlier this week and I can't figure out why it just starts up and runs when I'm not using it or it has no disk in it.

I get no message that it can't find a disk when it does this it just runs trying to locate a disk with no error message or anything. It runs and stops then pretty soon it runs again, off and on all day long.

I have antivirus software which runs every day, and spyware which I ran and they don't find anything.

Could the disk drive (floppy drive) be going bad?

Thanks,
Puck

From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#2]
 19 May 2006
To: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#1] 19 May 2006

I have an old computer with Win98 that needs a blank formattted disk in it at startup or it does that also. It does not sound like the same problem, but worth a try.

From: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#3]
 19 May 2006
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#2] 19 May 2006

Harvey,

I have been using just any floppy handy since it does not read it when it's doing this off and on thing on it's own.

I can use it to read a disk or save to a disk when ever I want with no problem. Can't figure out why it runs by itself when it wants to. This is a newer computer with XP on it. Might just be losing the A: drive, of course warranty just ran out a few months ago.

Puck

From: Dave Jones (DAVERJ) [#4]
 19 May 2006
To: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#3] 22 May 2006

I had a related problem a couple of years ago, though not exactly the same. Every time I ran Photoshop it accessed the A: drive. It turned out that the last file I had opened with the File > Open command had been on a floppy and it kept wanting to find the next one there.

I doubt this is your problem but maybe it'll ring a bell for you. What was the last thing you did involving a floppy? Maybe there's a utility running in the background that you had access something on a floppy and now it keeps wanting to check there.

From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#5]
 19 May 2006
To: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#3] 22 May 2006

Dave just gave me an idea. If it never finished writing something to the floppy, it is still looking for it. But is should give you an error message. Should, should, etc.

From: basehorawards [#6]
 22 May 2006
To: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#3] 22 May 2006

Puck,

Dave beat me to the punch. My computer that runs my rotary engraver is not on the network so I have to save to a floppy anything I want on that computer and roll over in my chair (seems like there is a name for that) to load it. After doing that; until I kill and restart Corel it will do the same thing to me. I won't stop until I put (like you) any floppy.

From: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#7]
 22 May 2006
To: ALL

OK, put all the advise together and decided to put a new floppy in and bring up what was on it then changed it back to c: drive, didn't help so I took a floppy, put it in and turned the computer off so when I restarted it it found the a: drive and gave the message to take it out. So did that and it hasn't started back up yet so will see if that takes care of it.

Thanks,
Puck

From: Gary White (GARYWHITE) [#8]
 22 Aug 2006
To: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#7] 11 Sep 2006

Something is trying to access the drive. My gut says that it's trying to auto-save something there. Microsoft Office autosaves (though typically to the C:) Is there any application that is open normally when this happens?

From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#9]
 22 Aug 2006
To: Gary White (GARYWHITE) [#8] Unread

I have found that if I had the files Explorer open to A: drive the last time it was used, it will always try to access it on boot and shutdown with some versions of Windows.

From: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#10]
 11 Sep 2006
To: Gary White (GARYWHITE) [#8] Unread

Gary,

I lost the hard drive in this machine just recently and just went ahead and replaced the floppy drive when I put in the new hard drive. The new one works just fine.

Thinking it was the hard drive going bad and messing up the floppy.

Been working on getting everything back up and running so haven't been to the board much lately. Still fighting some things since I have files from close to 12 years ago that I still need to use often but am having a hard time finding them on old floppies or re-creating them which has been time consuming.

Thanks,
Puck

From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#11]
 11 Sep 2006
To: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#10] 11 Sep 2006

Been there, done that twice recently.

You have my sympathies.

As far as the floppies, memory says that the drives have changed. They now sense that a disk is not in the drive and report that immediately rather then three tries to read the disk.

What is working for me at the moment is an easy solution. I bought a USB hard drive case, installed an 80 gig drive in it and a USB 2 card in the computer. My backups are now on that drive which is shut except when it is in use. I was running it on USB 1.1 and it was OK, the USB 2 card sped it up an amazing amount. Just be sure that you do not have it set to synchronize, it will not allow you to disconnect it if you synchronize it.

EDITED: 11 Sep 2006 by HARVEY-ONLY

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