Greetings, Claudia--

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From: Claudia Parson <[log in to unmask]>

> My A drive ( floppy disk drive) on my Packard Bell intell
pentium 233 mmx. Activates all by it self. By that I mean
the light comes on and it is thumping away
> untill I put any disk in it. Then it stops. Otherwise the
drive works fine to copy to it
> or read a program disk. Is there a way to stop this or do
I need a new drive?
> It doesn't happen all the time.Somedays not at all. Other
times once or twice..
> Hope some one can help

A number of antivirus programs automatically scan floppies
for viruses (virii?) unless they are set to do otherwise.
Norton Antivirus does this, for example.  If you have an
antivirus program running (often in the background, and it
will usually show an icon in the system tray--I'm assuming
you are running Win9x.), double click its icon in the system
tray to bring up its program window.  Somewhere on one of
the menus there should be a choice of "options" or
"preferences", and one of these should allow you to
"enable/disable" floppy scanning.  Scan floppy may even be a
'higher' level option to be checked or unchecked on an
"options" menu.

HTH,

Paul A. Shippert               Library/Media Specialist
"   . . . and I'm hovering like a fly
   waiting for the windshield on the freeway."  Genesis
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