Floppy drive - awful noise at close down

[mike]

Hi,

I helped a friend assemble a new pc. Windows XP, with service packs 1A
+ 2. Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-8IG 1000MK

He took it home and all was ok until he tried the floppy drive, as it
would not work. I then found we had forgotten to attach the power lead
to the floppy. Floppy now reads and writes works ok, but if you use
the floppy during any session, when closing down the system it tries
to access the floppy drive. It should not have any files open at that
time but makes an awful noise trying to read a disc which is not in
the drive !!!!

I can only guess that forgetting to attach the power lead at the time
Windows XP was loaded has caused the problem. Is the system treating
the floppy as a hard disc and expects media to be present at close
down???

Tried a new floppy drive and new cable but result is exactly the same.
Also deleted the floppy drive and controller from hardware and that
did not help. BIOS is correctly set for A drive 1.4 meg.

Any ideas on what I can do to resolve ???

Thanks for any reply

Mike

 

[JAD]

turn off AV scan of 'A' drive at shut down...

 

[David Maynard]

Hi,

I helped a friend assemble a new pc. Windows XP, with service packs 1A
+ 2. Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-8IG 1000MK

He took it home and all was ok until he tried the floppy drive, as it
would not work. I then found we had forgotten to attach the power lead
to the floppy. Floppy now reads and writes works ok, but if you use
the floppy during any session, when closing down the system it tries
to access the floppy drive. It should not have any files open at that
time but makes an awful noise trying to read a disc which is not in
the drive !!!!

I can only guess that forgetting to attach the power lead at the time
Windows XP was loaded has caused the problem. Is the system treating
the floppy as a hard disc and expects media to be present at close
down???

Tried a new floppy drive and new cable but result is exactly the same.
Also deleted the floppy drive and controller from hardware and that
did not help. BIOS is correctly set for A drive 1.4 meg.

Any ideas on what I can do to resolve ???

Thanks for any reply

Mike

You have Anti virus software installed and it's scanning the floppy for
boot viruses during shutdown. Turn that feature off if you don't want it to
try accessing the floppy when the system shuts down.

 

[mike]

JAD,

Thanks for the reply.

Will do that first thing tomorrow.

Mike

 

[Shep©]

Hi,

I helped a friend assemble a new pc. Windows XP, with service packs 1A
+ 2. Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-8IG 1000MK

He took it home and all was ok until he tried the floppy drive, as it
would not work. I then found we had forgotten to attach the power lead
to the floppy. Floppy now reads and writes works ok, but if you use
the floppy during any session, when closing down the system it tries
to access the floppy drive. It should not have any files open at that
time but makes an awful noise trying to read a disc which is not in
the drive !!!!

I can only guess that forgetting to attach the power lead at the time
Windows XP was loaded has caused the problem. Is the system treating
the floppy as a hard disc and expects media to be present at close
down???

Tried a new floppy drive and new cable but result is exactly the same.
Also deleted the floppy drive and controller from hardware and that
did not help. BIOS is correctly set for A drive 1.4 meg.

Any ideas on what I can do to resolve ???

Thanks for any reply

Mike

What happens if you leave a floppy disk in the drive when you
shutdown,or vice versa?



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[mike]

Problem solved. It was the anyi virus software.

Thanks to those who replied.

Mike