Frequent A: Drive Sensing

I am experiencing frequent a: drive sensing when I change URLs in IE6 or when I accomplish other activities such as go to some screens of Control Panel.

The a: drive sensing starts when I first start W2k, at the Password screen. There is a message that the OS is starting up the network.

I ran a complete scan for viruses, negative.

I ghosted back and noticed this activity seemed to begin much more heavily after I installed Norton System Works and Antivirus. I excluded a: drive in Antivirus, but it did not help. I turned off NSW and NAV and it did not help.

Is there any utility you know of that can trace what app or service is looking into my a: drive?

Thanks,

Tom In Dallas

 

Hi Tom In Dallas
I know it sounds odd......but try cleaning out your recently used list in My Documents as well?
Right click on your taskbar.....choose properties.....under the advanced tab, clear all records or recently accessed documents. I had a computer that did this......and like you, couldn't find out why....but clearing out the recently accessed list once in a while would work.
Also check, Device Manager/Performance/File System/Floppy Disk and uncheck the "Search for new floppy disk...... "

Empty "Temp Internet Files" and "Temp" folder in C:\Windows.



Daizy

 

Daizy,

Thank you so much! The noise was driving me crazy, I was keeping a diskette in there so it was diminished. I could not find the device-manager window you referred to in W2k, it must be in w98 I guess. I noticed things got better when I deleted the references to recent documents, better still when I dumped the temp internet files, and finally best when I deleted the history in IE6.

I hope you are having good weather in Edmonton. It is in the 90s here in Dallas and will probably be mostly highs in upper 90s all summer.

BTW, my favorite site (next to this one of course) is now radified.com.

Tom In Dallas

 

Hiya Tom in Dallas
So glad you found a solution to your problem. Thanks for taking the time to post back.
It's quite nice here in Edmonton...but we had a long wait while Spring took it's sweet time finding us. Loads of forest fires...so we're screaming for rain.
90's sounds a titch warmish to me though. You can keep that.
Radified is a fav site of mine as well!!!!!

Daizy

 

I noticed one other thing helps. I formatted a disk and left it in the A: drive, blank. There is some app that is remembering and re-checking when I have diskette files; having a blank diskette in there seems to quiet things.

Tom In Dallas

 

Hi Tom in Dallas:
More ideas:
Your anti-virus software may be configured to scan drive A: automatically, whether there is a disk in the drive or not . To check Norton AntiVirus , for example, click the Options button . On the Scanner tab , click the Advanced button . Uncheck All removable drives .
Click OK twice .

Desktop shortcuts pointing to a file or program on A: can also trigger this pointless access . The fix: select Desktop in Windows Explorer , and select Start-Find-Files or Folders . In the Named field, enter *.Ink, *.pif
Then, for the Containing Text field , enter a: and click Find Now . Delete all of the shortcuts you find , or at least move them either off the Explorer Desktop or out of the Start menu .


If you use Microsoft Office97, the FindFast utility could be causing the problem . To find out , select Start-Settings-Control Panel , then double-click the FindFast icon . Once the applet is up , see whether drive A: is on the list of indexes . If it is , highlight it and-select Index-Delete Index . Click OK twice , and then close FindFast and the Control Panel .


Daizy