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MP3 Player Activates Floppy Drive

Jul 23, 2009 5:15AM PDT

I just bought the Coby MP305-2G MP3 Player and everything works fine but when I plug it into my USB to transfer songs, my 3 1/2 floppy disk drive keeps checking for a disk until I remove the MP3. I looked for solutions on the web but haven't found anything useful. This really gets annoying and isn't normal at all...HOW DO I MAKE THIS STOP?

Thanks I appreciate your help!

Pat

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Try the old fix.
Jul 23, 2009 5:39AM PDT

Clear Recent Documents.

If you forgot how, google or bing that.

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Out of ideas
Jul 23, 2009 6:17AM PDT

Thank you but it still does not work when I do this

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Then the device has a virus or other.
Jul 23, 2009 6:49AM PDT

Some newer pests jump onto machines due to a vulnerability. So let's plug that gap.

Research AUTORUN EATER. Free over at download.com

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Tried
Jul 23, 2009 7:28AM PDT

I tried downloading AUTORUN EATER, installing it, ran it and the ran my MP3 player...it detected an autorun but then I couldn't use the software to transfer music ect...

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Which is a great clue.
Jul 23, 2009 8:02AM PDT

It appears their software is causing this. Now take this up with this device's tech support.

Do you really need a floppy drive?