What May Cause A Diskette To Run Continuously?

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Hi Ho Silver <24601@hidden.org> wrote in message
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> All of my 3 1/2" diskettes run ok in the floppy drive, except one in
> particular which will just run continuously (green light on) and never display
> its contents, etc., until I terminate the application (which Windows doesn't
> like, as it hiccups and redraws the desktop, etc.). Anyway, what might be
> the problem with the diskette that causes it to act in this way?

Basically its defective and the drive trys reading it forever.

It will stop eventually.

> (I did google this, but no joy).

Yeah, not that easy to google for.

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mtbottles <mtbottles@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Ho Silver wrote

>> All of my 3 1/2" diskettes run ok in the floppy drive, except
>> one in particular which will just run continuously (green light on)
>> and never display its contents, etc., until I terminate the
>> application (which Windows doesn't like, as it hiccups and
>> redraws the desktop, etc.). Anyway, what might be the
>> problem with the diskette that causes it to act in this way?

>> (I did google this, but no joy).

> Sometimes this can be caused by improper
> reversal of the IDE cable going to the disk drive

Cant be that, he says it only happens with one diskette.

> -- of course this will only happen if you just built
> the computer and mistakenly reversed the cable.

And doesnt explain why its only seen with a single diskette either.

> Otherwise ... your drive could be dying on you ...

Cant be that, he says it only happens with one diskette.

> or you could have some sort of trojan such
> as NEtBus causing your drive to spin-up

Cant be that, he says it only happens with one diskette.