Empty Floppy drive noise

[tburakjr]

Empty Floppy drive suddenly started making intermittent clicking noise with drive light on. The only way to stop noise is to insert a disc. I replaced the drive and problem reoccurred.

 

[Alabalcho]

Some application on your PC is trying to access the floppy drive. Download "Process Explorer" from Microsoft, and check which application is trying to do that.

I don't remember last time I used a floppy disk on my Windows PC... I would disable it from BIOS, and enable it back when needed.

 

[tburakjr]

Some application on your PC is trying to access the floppy drive. Download "Process Explorer" from Microsoft, and check which application is trying to do that.

I don't remember last time I used a floppy disk on my Windows PC... I would disable it from BIOS, and enable it back when needed.

 

[alanvatrox]

I had the exact same problem, if you don't use the floppy drive go to Control Panel > Device Manager > Floppy Disk Drive and then right-click on it and disable it. Sometimes opening a window will trigger the floppy drive, I don't know why.
I hope it works.