you might have a shortcut somewhere in your start menu or desktop that
points to some file on a:
find it and delete it, and consider yourself happy :) b/c if you had a
broken link to a file on a network, your computer would just hang up for 30
sec to 1 min, regularly

regards

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Guise" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 9:49 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Floppy Access


> Hi All
> My computer has recently begun to access/scan the floppy drive at startup
> and randomly for periods of  5-10 seconds. I have tried a clean Windows 98
> startup (no TSR's except Explorer and Systray) without any effect. The

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