Floppy drive chatter

HP Pavilion a650y: Windows XP Small Business Edition.
New computer. While porting files from old computer to new
via floppy disks, the drive (I think it was the floppy
drive) began to chatter continuously. A CTRL/ALT/DELETE
brought up the program not responding window with the
unresponding program highlighted. On clicking "End
Program", the window blinked, did not end the program and
copied the unresponding program line to another line,
resulting in two identical "Program not responding" lines.
I could only stop the chattering by pulling the power plug.
The same thing happened yesterday evening when I attempted
to turn off the computer with START/Turn off computer. No
floppy disk in the drive. Continuous drive chatter, again
had to pull the plug.
I would appreciate a possible explanation and/or fix.
Incidentally, the same thing happens on my old computer,
also an HP (with Windows 98), but the chatter never lasts
more than a few seconds and I haven't needed any fixes on
it--yet.

Sounds like you have a problem
Unhook the Floppy inside the computer
This will stop the chattering.
What program is not responding?

You will be much better off asking this in a HP computer group rathern than an
Excel Group




"Keith Close" wrote in message
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: HP Pavilion a650y: Windows XP Small Business Edition.
: New computer. While porting files from old computer to new
: via floppy disks, the drive (I think it was the floppy
: drive) began to chatter continuously. A CTRL/ALT/DELETE
: brought up the program not responding window with the
: unresponding program highlighted. On clicking "End
: Program", the window blinked, did not end the program and
: copied the unresponding program line to another line,
: resulting in two identical "Program not responding" lines.
: I could only stop the chattering by pulling the power plug.
: The same thing happened yesterday evening when I attempted
: to turn off the computer with START/Turn off computer. No
: floppy disk in the drive. Continuous drive chatter, again
: had to pull the plug.
: I would appreciate a possible explanation and/or fix.
: Incidentally, the same thing happens on my old computer,
: also an HP (with Windows 98), but the chatter never lasts
: more than a few seconds and I haven't needed any fixes on
: it--yet.