I installed Xdrive Desktop Lite on my desktop PC and when launched it continually seems to be checking my A: (diskette) drive. Every 3 seconds or so, the drive makes a noise and its light flashes. As soon as I close Xdrive Lite, this stops. No other applications cause this same behavior.
Any ideas on how I can stop this?
Thanks.
I'm having the same problem with xdrive lite. I haven't had a disk in the drive for over 6 months (well before xdrive lite was installed) yet it continuously and annoyingly scans my floppy drive while xdrive lite is open. Is there a fix yet?
Is there a way to exclude the A: drive (and may be other drives) from being checked by XDrive Lite?
xdrive (lite) seems to be continually probing one of my drives. I've seen this concern posted elsewhere, but haven't seen satisfactory resolution. Please advise!
apesbrain,
we kept looking into this issue. We found that if
Xdrive Lite will keep checking the A: drive until you restart Xdrive Lite.
I hope that help,
-l
apesbrain,
The Xdrive Lite application checks your system for drives: floppy drive, thumb drives, hard drives etc. So the application is checking your A: drive so that I can show any disk it finds.
Most drives will not spin up if there is not a disk in it. If you have a floppy disk in your drive, try ejecting it; then Xdrive Lite won't keep check for the disk.
I hope that helps,
-l
First, thanks for your replies.
I haven't had a diskette in my A: drive in a very long time; since well before I installed Xdrive Lite. Anyway, I found one and tried suggestions above with no luck. The only way to stop the drive from trying to spin up was to leave the diskette in the drive. Not the best solution since if PC is restarted it will try to boot from there.
There is something else going on...
I am having the same problem here as well with no luck.
Xdrive Light does ask the operating system about all the drives so it can show them all to you for uploads and downloads.
Do you have any specific settings for you A: that you may have changed or customized? Does your A: drive spin up when you launch Windows Explorer?
Thanks,
-l
No special settings have been made on my A drive. Typically, it is sitting there empty.
When I open Windows Explorer, the A drive does not automatically spin up. It only does so if I click on it.
Only thing non-standard about my PC is the presence of a secondary external USB hard drive. Otherwise, it is a standard Pentium 4/Windows XP Pro desktop PC.
Thanks.
BTW, the latest update of
BTW, the latest update of Xdrive does not solve this problem. Listening to my A: drive clicking right now