Programs accessing floppy drive

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Hi everyone,   I have about 200 optiplex machines that I support.  Just recently I've had a few machines doing something funny, and may be normal, but I want to make sure.  Here is the problem:   When a user accesses a file from outlook such as excel, the program searches the floppy drive, if there is not a disk in the drive then it makes a loud noise and continues searching.  Eventually it stops and opens up the program.  If I stick a floppy in the drive, open the excel file from outlook it opens fine.    I just had a user trying to access a file from his hard drive, the program did the same thing, it searched the floppy drive first and made a bunch of noise before openning up the file.  I stuck a floppy in, openned the file and it was fine thereafter.    On the first situation, I've changed out the floppy and it's doing the same thing.  Does this sound like a hardware/software problem, or just normal business?  Thanks in advance for any help!   Colin

here I am · Answer

Sounds like somewhere in windows it is set to search floppy drive first.  Sounds like more of an annoyance than anything.

5JM · Answer

I have found from my own personal and users experience that if you save a document to a floppy disk instead of on the Hard Drive or Server BEFORE you shut down Excel, Word etc. then when they open the program again, say Excel, it'll search the last place it saved - may have something to do with Auto Recovery in the fact that it's looking for recoverable data in case it didn't shutdown correctly - not sure!.   As a test, save a test file to the Hard Drive and then exit Excel, then open Excel and see what happens.  Like 'here i am' stated, it's more of a software problem rather than a hardware issue.    Hope this helps!   Stephen :smileyvery-happy:

ctarmen2 · Answer

Stephen,   I think you're right.  It seems to do the samething on my machine.  If I save a file to a floppy, when I try to open a different file on the hard drive it looks at the floppy first.  The difference in my situation is that my floppy seems to be quieter than the users.  Thanks for the response guys!   Colin

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