a: drive chatter when opening Notepad and Word

[mommabear]

I can live with it, but it's irritating.

Whenever I open a Notepad or Word document, my a: drive kicks in. The drive doesn't actually open. It just chatters for a split second. It only happens if there is text in the document. If I open a new (blank) Notepad or Word document, I don't hear it.

I did another test by saving some notepads to a floppy disk and when I open them in A drive, the noise doesn't happen. The noise also does NOT happen if I leave a floppy disk in the tray.

I don't think it's related to my anti virus program because I've disabled it to test it and it still does it.

It's just weird. Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks.

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OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name XXXXXXXX (edited)
System Manufacturer ECS
System Model K7S5A
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~1294 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T, 4/2/2001
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\System32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)"
User Name XXXXXXXX\xxxxx (edited)
Time Zone US Eastern Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 384.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 211.16 MB
Total Virtual Memory 1.28 GB
Available Virtual Memory 989.64 MB
Page File Space 922.97 MB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

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