Optical drive noise on bootup

[hoom]

Something thats been bugging me for years is that the optical drive makes a horrendous racket on boot fairly often leaving me freaking that I might have a dying fan somewhere.

Anyone know how to convince my PC to not do that?

 

[Guden Oden]

Your inquiry is rather vague. What kind of racket is it you're talking about, is it the drive spinning up? If so, remove the disc in it...

Anyway, if I had an optical drive that sounds like a broken fan, I'd rip it out of my box, smash it up with a hammer, and then boy a new shiny NEC 3540A.

 

[Karma Police]

No kidding, Optical drives are pretty cheap now. Just go get a new DVD/CD-ROM w/ SATA.

 

[RussSchultz]

*shrug* mine do the same thing. THey spin up at bootup time and make quite a racket.

Maybe the newer ones don't, but...*meh*

 

[Diplo]

*shrug* mine do the same thing. THey spin up at bootup time and make quite a racket.

I think all drives do because Windows tries to 'mount' them when booting.

 

[hoom]

Yes, its the spinup.
But there must surely be a way of stopping it?