Recently I switched to Carbonite on two machines at home. After installing the software and starting the backup, I noticed that frequently something would be accessing the floppy drive (or at least trying). Googling around a little bit revealed that this was one of Carbonite’s “features”.
The two suggestions that kept coming up during my search were:
- Insert a floppy, and Carbonite will learn that that drive is a floppy drive
– Sorry, that didn’t work - Disconnect the floppy drive
– Wait, and then open case when the drive needs to be used? Bad idea!!
There is a third option: disable the floppy drive in Windows.
If you open My Computer, you’ll see something similar to this:
Notice the 3 1/2 Floppy – that’s the one making all the noise. But not for long!
Right-click on the icon, and select Properties from the drop-down menu. Click on the Hardware tab and select the Floppy disk drive.
Click on the Properties button.
On the bottom of the screen is a drop-down box. Click on the drop-down arrow and change the selection to “Do not use this device (disable)”. Click OK.
Click OK on the screen with the 3 1/2 inch Floppy properties, and
return to the My Computer screen. Your Floppy Drive A: should be gone,
and with it the seeking Carbonite tries to do on it!
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Same problem – A: drive getting accessed every little while after installing Carbonite. Inactivating the drive as you suggest stops this, but it also disappears (from My Computer) the two partitions, assigned drive letters E; & F:, on my second hard drive! XP – the amazement never stops . . .
Same problem – A: drive getting accessed every little while after installing Carbonite. Inactivating the drive as you suggest stops this, but it also disappears (from My Computer) the two partitions, assigned drive letters E; & F:, on my second hard drive! XP – the amazement never stops . . .