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Win81 seems to have a real thing for the floppy drive

mikeymikec

mikeymikec

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When upgrading machines to Win81 recently, I've noticed that Windows attempts to access the floppy disk drive (internal, not USB) on some really odd occasions. For example, when safe-ejecting a USB storage device and when connecting one.

No other software was installed at the point that this occurred.

I don't know whether Win7 does the same thing because floppy drives aren't a common thing any more.
 
This happens to all drives, I think. I have a SSD+HDD setup on my desktop, and the HDD is usually idle and spun down, so it's easy to detect when the computer accesses it--I can hear the spindle spinning up. And it happens, for example, when I connect a USB drive. Might be the drive manager refreshing its list of drives when one is connected. Or something.
 
mikeymikec said:
When upgrading machines to Win81 recently, I've noticed that Windows attempts to access the floppy disk drive (internal, not USB) on some really odd occasions. For example, when safe-ejecting a USB storage device and when connecting one.

No other software was installed at the point that this occurred.

I don't know whether Win7 does the same thing because floppy drives aren't a common thing any more.
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Probably some sort of artifact of PnP enumeration. The removable devices, check for media.
 
It's been a while, but when I upgraded to Win7 years ago on my PC that still had a floppy drive, it absolutely did this.

I get the same thing in Win 8 with the DVD drive on my laptop. It seems to love checking for media anytime the system decides it wants to list available drives for any particular reason. I've just written it off as a windows quirk all these years.
 
code65536 said:
This happens to all drives, I think. I have a SSD+HDD setup on my desktop, and the HDD is usually idle and spun down, so it's easy to detect when the computer accesses it--I can hear the spindle spinning up. And it happens, for example, when I connect a USB drive. Might be the drive manager refreshing its list of drives when one is connected. Or something.
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That's my experience as well with W7... even just opening up the trash can will spool up all the drives whether or not they have anything pending deletion.
 
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