What does it mean when one of my CD/DVD drives starts

[patrice]

working even though I haven't told it to do anything?

F: whirs briefly and then stops, then it whirs briefly and stops again. It keeps doing this, and sometimes it whirs longer than just briefly and then stops again.

[trotsky]

1. What disc is in it?

And does it do that for any disc, or just a certain one?

[salvorhardin]

2. It means...

It's been possessed by SATAN! I suggest bashing on the power supply with a hammer until the magic blue smoke comes out. That's the only way to be sure you've exorcised the demons.

[bemildred]

3. It means you are running Windoze. nt

[RoyGBiv]

4. This is just about right ...

Windoze spins up the CD/DVD drive for the silliest of reasons. If you've got anything running that accesses a directory structure, it can initiate access of the drive.

When I'm running Windoze, I never keep a CD in the drive unless I'm using it for just this reason. It's irritating.

[bemildred]

5. Well, I was thinking about this persons problem,

and I realized that the one thing I knew was that it
was Windoze, because it never happens in another OS,
not even DOS, but in Windoze it happens all the time.

[patrice]

6. Thanks All, very much.

I guess I should know better than leave a disc in the drive anyway.