Floppy disk seek more times

[luca]

Hi,
I've a problem: I don't say if it is a virus.

When I insert a floppy disk into drive and I open Explorer in Windows
95, the drive begin seek more, more times. It is really difficult to
work under these conditions.

This fact don't happen in DOS Window.

My antivirus hasn't detected any virus.

Thanks for all suggestion.

Luca

[LHigdon]

Can you give more detail? What does "more,more times" mean? Can you
quantify this in seconds of disk access time?

Peace

Lee Higdon
Fayetteville, GA. (USA)

email to:lthi...@mciworld.com
lhigd...@mindspring.com

[ric...@my-deja.com]

I am very much interested in this phenomena (sp?). We have also found some
computers that exhibit the same symptoms. Explorer window, list A: drive
contents and the A: drive just seeks and seeks. No updates to the directory
listing, but a ctl-alt-del to bring up task window is required to stop the
seeks. Take a floppy from this computer to another and same symptom occurs
on it.

We are running Intel LanDesk antivirus with latest definitions from Symantec,
and have scanned affected disks. No virus found. Is it a virus or something
else.

Any help please.
Rick H.

rhernandez@*nospam*vhs.dst.ca.us (remove *nospam*)

In article <396ac5df...@194.20.8.2>,

luc...@libero.it wrote:
> Hi,
> I've a problem: I don't say if it is a virus.
>
> When I insert a floppy disk into drive and I open Explorer in Windows
> 95, the drive begin seek more, more times. It is really difficult to
> work under these conditions.
>
> This fact don't happen in DOS Window.
>
> My antivirus hasn't detected any virus.
>
> Thanks for all suggestion.
>
> Luca
>

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[m...@tady.org]

luca wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've a problem: I don't say if it is a virus.
>
> When I insert a floppy disk into drive and I open Explorer in Windows
> 95, the drive begin seek more, more times. It is really difficult to
> work under these conditions.
>
> This fact don't happen in DOS Window.
>
> My antivirus hasn't detected any virus.
>
> Thanks for all suggestion.
>
> Luca

Check for presence of DRVWQ117.VXD which some tape backups
install. If the tape drive isn't connected to floppy, boot into
DOS and nuke it.

--J
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