Floppy Seek At Startup and Shutdown

[Guest]

After a user puts a file on, or reads a file from the floppy drive they begin
experiencing the following on their system:

When starting up or shutting down the floppy begins to make a "grinding"
noise, which I am sure is an empty drive trying to "read" a file.

Is there a way to keep this from happening?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

After a user puts a file on, or reads a file from the floppy drive
they begin experiencing the following on their system:

When starting up or shutting down the floppy begins to make a
"grinding" noise, which I am sure is an empty drive trying to "read"
a file.

Is there a way to keep this from happening?

What antivirus software are you using?

 

[Jabez Gan]

Richard,

From my experience, if the user installs Symantec Anti Virus, there is this
option in it to do a scan on A: drive on system boot up and shut down. Try
asking your user if he has symantec anti virus software with this setting
enabled. (I'm not sure if there are other types of anti virus software with
this feature, but try asking him to check the settings too).

Also, in Run, type in MSCONFIG and under Startup, make sure that no shortcut
to A: drive exists.

 

[jel183\(UK\)]

After a user puts a file on, or reads a file from the floppy drive they
begin
experiencing the following on their system:

When starting up or shutting down the floppy begins to make a "grinding"
noise, which I am sure is an empty drive trying to "read" a file.

Is there a way to keep this from happening?

I have experienced a similar problem - I solved mine by clearing the
recently used documents list (MRU) - one was searching for a file on the A
drive ....

 

[Miss Leigh]

This could also be caused by an anti virus program scanning the floppy drive
on start up and shut down. This can be changed by un checking the feature in
the anti virus program to scan the floppy drive on start up and shut down.

Leigh

 

[Plato]

After a user puts a file on, or reads a file from the floppy drive they begin
experiencing the following on their system:

When starting up or shutting down the floppy begins to make a "grinding"
noise, which I am sure is an empty drive trying to "read" a file.

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootlist/210.htm#3