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Rubberkitty
2007-07-26, 18:59
I am using 1.5.1.13 it also happened in 1.5.1.12.

Every time I start Spybot or the updater they try to access the floppy drive. Is this intended? This happens on 2 diferent PC's one is running XP and the other is running Vista.

Its not really a problem for me because I rarely use my floppy drive but it is annoying hearing it trying to be accessed.

Thanks

wk357mag
2007-07-26, 19:06
I think this is intended to happen. Cause if there was a disk in place, it would scan it for bugs too.

Rubberkitty
2007-07-26, 19:43
But what reason would the updater need to access the floppy? :scratch:

wk357mag
2007-07-27, 01:07
I suspect, that if there is a disc there, that it will SCAN that disk as well. So it polls the drive, if nothing is there, it moves on!

PepiMK
2007-07-27, 13:22
For the main app, wk357mag got it.

About the updater though, I'm not quite sure, I guess that's just a side-effect where the drive checking is in some generic startup routine of something that's used in both (e.g. trying to locate registry hives etc.).

Rubberkitty
2007-08-21, 01:30
Updater still does this in 1.5.1.14 RC1.
Is there any way to manually disable the floppy disk check?

1.5.1.14 RC1 the immunization process seems to be faster. (to me at least :) ).

rubydusty
2007-10-28, 02:24
I am reviving an old computer that uses windows 98 se. The floppy drive appears to be broken, so when I try to open spybot, I can hear it trying to access the floppy drive, then nothing else happens. I can't even look at the start page, it never appears. Any suggestions? Thanks!

spybotsandra
2007-10-28, 02:31
Hello,

You can skip the drive a check:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=17886

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot