A: drive randomly accessed...

[mosdef]

My A drive is randomly being accessed, as it starts trying to read a disk even when no such command was placed. I leave my computer on over night and it is very annoying to be woken up to the sounds of the A: drive whirling. Does anyone know what may be causing this? Thanks

-mosdef

 

[blargyblarg]

could be anti-virus software or some other software running in the background.

 

[mosdef]

Good point, I'll check up on that. However, it only seemed to be occurring recently, so I'd like to say that it's probably a problem related to a recently installed piece of software.

-mosdef

 

[goofy2000]

I used to have that when Office was installed. which then activate fastfind on boot somehow in the background. I just deleted it from the start menu, and after that it stopped doing it.

 

[Egon]

I don't know that this is exactly your problem, but here it is anyway. My Dad recently got a new computer with Win ME installed and was encountering a similiar problem. I solved the problem by clearing the 'Documents' folder accessed from the 'Start' button. He'd copied some files from the A: drive onto the HD and when you open the 'Start' it would automatically think you were trying to access a file orginally on A:-drive.

Hope this helps.