Floppy Drive makes noise after start.

[smain]

Hi everyone !

After my XP starts (not during the bootup), the floppy drive makes a noisy
beep. Under Windows 98, there had been no such a noise until I upgraded to
XP.

Can anyone help me resolve this.

Thanks a lot.

Smain

[BigJIm]

I just disabled mine
"smain" > wrote in message
...
> Hi everyone !
>
> After my XP starts (not during the bootup), the floppy drive makes a noisy
> beep. Under Windows 98, there had been no such a noise until I upgraded
to
> XP.
>
> Can anyone help me resolve this.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Smain
>
>

[smain]

How and whether you can still you use after you disabled it?

"BigJIm" > wrote in message
...
> I just disabled mine
> "smain" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Hi everyone !
> >
> > After my XP starts (not during the bootup), the floppy drive makes a
noisy
> > beep. Under Windows 98, there had been no such a noise until I upgraded
> to
> > XP.
> >
> > Can anyone help me resolve this.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Smain
> >
> >
>
>

[Maureen Goldman]

>"smain" > wrote:

>After my XP starts (not during the bootup), the floppy drive makes a noisy
>beep. Under Windows 98, there had been no such a noise until I upgraded to
>XP.
>
>Can anyone help me resolve this.

Any chance that you have a shortcut pointing toward the floppy drive?

[smain]

Good question Maureen. My feeling is telling me no but I really don't know
and I am not quite sure as to how I can check this.

Many Thanks.

"Maureen Goldman" > wrote in message
...
> >"smain" > wrote:
>
> >After my XP starts (not during the bootup), the floppy drive makes a
noisy
> >beep. Under Windows 98, there had been no such a noise until I upgraded
to
> >XP.
> >
> >Can anyone help me resolve this.
>
> Any chance that you have a shortcut pointing toward the floppy drive?
>

[Maureen Goldman]

>"smain" > wrote:
>Good question Maureen. My feeling is telling me no but I really don't know
>and I am not quite sure as to how I can check this.

I use a small freeware utility called Empty Temp Folders, which among
other things, checks to see if you have any invalid shortcuts. It's
very easy to accidentally create one to the A: drive.

Unlike Win98, XP has more than one type of shortcut in the Types list
in its Find area. It might take a while, but you can run a search with
*.* as the file name and a:\ as the text to be found.