- Floppy Drive Does a Seek at Shutdown
- Posted by J. P. Willis on February 18th, 2005
What dio I need to do to perevent the floppy drive from coming on to
seek a disk at shutdown. It only recently started to happen. Please
help.
- Posted by Mikhail Zhilin on February 18th, 2005
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:13:46 GMT, J. P. Willis <jopwill@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
Most likely it is antivirus, that checks if the diskette is inserted --
to prevent the potential virus infection if this diskette is bootable.
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Mikhail Zhilin
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- Posted by PattyL on February 18th, 2005
Mikhail is correct. If you really want to stop this behavior, you can
probably configure your anti-virus not to check the floppy on shutdown by
looking for options or preferences within the antivirus program.
PattyL
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