Floppy & CD Spins Up On Startup/Shutdown??

[Dwight Stewart]

My floppy and CD drives started spinning up for several seconds during the
computer startup and shutdown process recently. They were not doing this
before and there is nothing in either of the drives.

1. What might cause this type of behavior?

2. Is this necessary - for example, to run a backup program's boot disk?
I recently installed Norton's Ghost, but not sure that's
related.

3. Is there a way to control this - a control panel or something?

Thanks for your assistance.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

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[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Dwight Stewart wrote:
> My floppy and CD drives started spinning up for several seconds
> during the computer startup and shutdown process recently. They were
> not doing this before and there is nothing in either of the drives.
>
> 1. What might cause this type of behavior?
>
> 2. Is this necessary - for example, to run a backup program's boot
> disk? I recently installed Norton's Ghost, but not
> sure that's
> related.
>
> 3. Is there a way to control this - a control panel or something?
>
> Thanks for your assistance.

Dwight

Likely caused by a program option that is set to check these drives during
startup/shutdown. Check the options for any newly installed software.
--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

[Dwight Stewart]

"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:
>
> Likely caused by a program option that is set to
> check these drives during startup/shutdown. Check
> the options for any newly installed software.


I will, Ronnie. The only thing I've installed recently was Norton's Ghost,
but found nothing about that in the manual or settings. However, I'll keep
looking.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

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