WhoDunIt: accessing Drive A:

[Shog9 0]

Ah, i'd forgotten about that bit of HP madness. Had me convinced of some bizarre virus 'till i tracked it down (and then disconnected the floppy drive). What, is HP running a retirement home for demented VB coders or something?

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[Chris Meech]

Go Phish. :)

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[DaveX86]

You can get a 'Drive Monitor' utility free at MS Sysinternals: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx[^] ...all those utilities are great for sleuthing what's accessing registry, network, drives, etc. Correction: should say "Disk Monitor" Update: The 'File Monitor' one looks like it tells you more than the Disk Monitor -- modified at 14:21 Tuesday 6th November, 2007

[Gary Wheeler]

Who said they retired?

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[peterchen]

for a variety of reasons, it is still necessary (And I guess one of them IS the culprit!)

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[peterchen]

not anymore, but drivers/funny software may still be installed. Any details?

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[Shog9 0]

Make sure the automatic updater and "share to web" shell extension crap is completely gone.

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[Shog9 0]

peterchen wrote:

I already tried process explorer to hunt it down

Have you tried Procmon? Diskmon? Filemon? If not, try 'em. In that order.

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[Chris Losinger]

what Shog9 said. HP has some utilities that wake up every 5 minutes, do something, then disappear. i noticed them when i was playing games: their auto-update thing would spawn a top-level window, then immediately close it. that would send the game to the background and bring up the desktop.

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[UncaDanno]

Try checking your MRU lists. Not easy to get them all. You'll have to check the registry and data files, depending upon the application(s). Take a look at your "My Recent Documents" list. Same thing happened to me a couple of years ago. I found a path to a file on the A: drive in an MRU list, removed it, and the floppy drive ghost was exhorcised.

[Rocky Moore]

You still have a Drive A? ;) Like others have mentioned the SysInternals drive monitor should help you.

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[hairy_hats]

Not a Compaq is it? My (Compaq) test rig won't go to sleep properly because it keeps flicking the A drive.

[springjazzy]

Maybe somebody shared Drive A in network with description "Interesting Films" 8)

[peterchen]

Now THAT's an idea! :D

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