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mnvron

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April 24th, 2006 06:00

Floppy drive keeps running

Hi. The floppy drive on my XPS600 repeatedly tries to read a disk, even when one is not in the drive. About every 5 seconds, the drive light comes on and the drive makes a grinding noise. If I put a disk in the drive, it continues to do the same thing. Any suggestions?

flaco22

30 Posts

April 24th, 2006 11:00

well these sounds more like software try these first check that any program is scanning your computer or floppy second restart your computer contact dell or simply check your floppy propereties if none of these work do a sistem restore or press f11 and ctrl in the dell sing when you turn on your computer keep my posted in your situtation

KarthikAdla

79 Posts

April 24th, 2006 19:00

Hi,

You can try reseating the FDD cables once, if still the same issue.

Mostly it should be a software trying to read the drive.Can you tell me what is the antivirus installed in the computer.

Regards,

Karthik Adla.

 

mnvron

12 Posts

April 25th, 2006 06:00

Problem solved!! Ran msconfig and deleted all of the startup programs, then added them back in one by one as I restarted each time to troubleshoot. Problem program was called Bounceback Launcher, a data backup program that shipped with my Seagate 300GB backup hard drive.

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