Why does my computer keep trying to access my floppy drive?

General Questions
#1

It’s getting annoying.

Anyway the computer is a Win XP, with plenty of system resources.

I’ve been using the floppy drive to transfer some medium sized pictures. (about 100Kb). But I am finished now and am continuing to use the Internet. I’ve closed all of the files that I opened on the floppy, but now every five minutes or so the floppy drive will make that grinding/floppy accessing sound.

The only programs I have open are Mozilla, and a Zip file that exsists on my desktop. Neither of these programs should be accessing my Floppy.

How do I make it stop? Is it damaging?

Please help me, the sound is driving me nuts.

#2

Do you still have the floppy disk in the drive? Take it out and see if that helps.

Do you have a virus scanner? Open it up and see if there’s a checkmark next to your floppy (A:) drive. It may be trying to scan it for viruses.