>>Whenever I log on or off to Windows XP, or switch from account for that matter, the floppy drive is accessed. So there is a floppy in the drive on a permanent basis. When de floppy is not there, the drive makes a hell of a noise to notify its needs, but why does it want a floppy and how can I overcome this problem?
Check your environment variables. If your path includes the floppy drive, you will end up with all kinds of annoying probing of the floppy disk, as applications traverse the path variable upon startup.
It could also be a registry value pointing to the floppy drive thats being access by a few applications. You can goto the sysinternals website and get a free tool that will let you log what areas of the registry are being accessed along with the application accessing it.
I havent personally seen that behavior since win98.
