W520: want to disable the use of cd drive

System: W7 (professional)
I did not know what happened, but the cd drive keeps powering on and beeping. Whenever the cd drive powers on and beeps, the cursor freezes on the monitor for a few seconds, and I can do nothing for a few seconds. This really drives me crazy. Orginally, the cd drive is set to power off (with a little red circle and a line across the circle symbol), and everything goes fine.
I would like to disable the use of cd drive, and do not want the freezing thing and beep to happen. Thank you very much.

Hi,
Do you have some application that tries to access the optical drive from time to time? Maybe something recently installed or activated?
It could be something really unexpected - like the windows slideshow gadget. I had a similar issue with a HDD set to spin down. Finally realized that the slideshow was accessing imaged on the HDD occasionally.
Just tossing *stuff* at the wall...
Z.
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