Drive A Problem

[toujours]

My Drive A starts and lights up without a floppy disk inside it. I have been offered possible solutions to this, but none have addressed the problem. One of these was checking the Registry Editor HKEY_CURRENT _USER, Software, Microsoft, Windows, Current Version, Policies, Explorer, and altering the value of "NoDriveTypeAAutoRun." The value I have is 95 00 00 00, which seems to be correct. Another possibility I came across from reading the Archives here was looking at the Device Manager > Properties > Settings Tab> Options. These are shown as Disconnect, Auto Insert Notification, which can be either checked or unchecked. In mine these are grayed out and nothing can be done with them. A third possibility for causing the problem was that my antivirus program could be making drive A act up, but drive A has been acting up since before I got the antivirus program. Thus, all of the leads have come to a dead end.

If anyone has suggestions, I would be very grateful to hear from them.

Thanks.

ps. It's been suggested that whenever drive A acts up, I do the control>alt>del key combination to see which program/application is active. I have done this, but there's always a list of the various programs I've worked with/opened and I can't tell from here which one might be the culprit.

 

[rugrat]

A Long shot,
Do you have Microsoft Office installed. If you do there is a program in office called Find Fast. Every few minutes Find Fast searches the drives on your machine so it can index new documents that it finds.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q199787

This link will tell you how to disable it if this is the problem.

Took a shot, hope it helps

 

[kilowatt1]

Right click on "My Computer". Click on Performance.Click on File System. Click on Floppy Disk. Uncheck the "Search for new floppy disk drive each time computer starts". Good luck. KW1

 

[toujours]

I have done what you both suggested: disabled Findfast and unchecked search for new floppy drive when computer starts. I'll let you know if doing these things did the trick.


Thank you much and Merry Christmas.

 

[SavvyLady]

I have to ask when is the last time you ran a good updated virus scanner? My advice is go to housecalls & run the free online virus scanner.
Click here to do so!
That will eliminate one of the possiblities.

 

[toujours]

It's ironic that you should mention it, but I've gotten a clean bill of health from several antivirus programs. I just recently installed Etrust EZ Antivirus Program for ongoing protection. No virus scan detected a virus, worm, etc. Actually, I tried so many of them it's not even funny. I also installed a Firewall. Both the Firewall and the antivirus program were installed in the last couple of days, whereas the drive A problem started months ago. I also thought it could be due to a virus, but no virus has come up. Go figure.

Thanks and happy holidays to you.

 

[SavvyLady]

well thats a good thing. But puts us right back at the drawing board trying to figure it out.

what happens when you reboot w/ a floppy in?


This might be stupid but have you checked to see if its in your startup group????

 

[toujours]

The last time I rebooted and left a floppy disk in drive A, I remember that I got an error message or some sort of notification from Windows about having left the disk in the drive. I haven't done this in eons, however. I'm not sure I understood what you meant by it being in my startup group. If you mean the floppy disk/ drive A, no, it's not. I'm going to wait and see if disabling Findfast, which I just tried doing today, solves the problem. I had heard about Findfast possibly causing a problem such as this once before. I should know in a few days.

Happy holidays to you as well.