Help! my PC keeps trying to access the A drive !?$*

Any ideas how I can stop this thing? It keeps trying to access the empty A
dirve about every 10 seconds. The PC is about 5 years old. I've tried
re-booting. This might have started after I did a disk cleanup.

thanks in advance...
BoBo Baggins

i am assuming that
your a drive is likely
to be a floppy drive.

if so, then perhaps,
you might try accessing
the bios and disable
the floppy drive device
the bios is detecting.

also, you mention the
drive being empty but not
sure if you mean the drive
bay or simply that there
is no media in the drive.

in anycase, if you have
a drive a / floppy drive,
you can open your computer
and disconnect the cables
to it.

both methods above will
simply disable the drive
so that windows cannot
see it.

however, method 2 is a
better choice since the
numerous bootups will
simply cycle the drive to
death.

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"BoBo" wrote in message ...
Any ideas how I can stop this thing? It keeps trying to access the empty A
dirve about every 10 seconds. The PC is about 5 years old. I've tried
re-booting. This might have started after I did a disk cleanup.

thanks in advance...
BoBo Baggins

BoBo wrote:
Any ideas how I can stop this thing? It keeps trying to access the
empty A dirve about every 10 seconds. The PC is about 5 years old.
I've tried re-booting. This might have started after I did a disk
cleanup.


For reasons passing understanding, 16-bit DOS programs, when they attempt to
open a file, check the floppy drive first.

You can speed things up by putting a blank floppy disk in the drive.

BoBo wrote:
Any ideas how I can stop this thing? It keeps trying to access the
empty A dirve about every 10 seconds. The PC is about 5 years old.
I've tried re-booting. This might have started after I did a disk
cleanup.


For reasons passing understanding, 16-bit DOS programs, when they attempt to
open a file, check the floppy drive first.

You can speed things up by putting a blank floppy disk in the drive.

BoBo wrote:
Any ideas how I can stop this thing? It keeps trying to access the
empty A dirve about every 10 seconds. The PC is about 5 years old.
I've tried re-booting. This might have started after I did a disk
cleanup.


For reasons passing understanding, 16-bit DOS programs, when they attempt to
open a file, check the floppy drive first.

You can speed things up by putting a blank floppy disk in the drive.