uncalled floppy reads

[whoha]

About once per hour, my floppy drive attempts to read approximately 8 times in quick succession. It's as if W98 is booting up and reads the floppy first, and makes 8 quick attempts when finding no disk there.

If I'm playing music, it's interrupted during this time. Most other work I'm doing will not notice a 2-second interruption. I thought of disabling the floppy in the BIOS, but this seems too radical and perhaps dangerous.

Any thoughts on what this is...and how to correct it?

Thanks

Gary

Cheers!

 

[Majeskty]

Check your anti Virus software. Norton unless you uncheck it will check all floppies upon access and shutdown which can be a nusiance.

 

[Guest]

You could also go into the registry and do a search for
A:\
remove any instances if if.

P.S.
Make sure you backup the registry before making any modifications.

 

[whoha]

Thanks for your replies.
Not Norton.
Registry...hmmm. Over my head there, but I might just jump in...time to swim in deeper currents...lol. I'm not quite ready to face format c: & reload of everything...several hours of time for that.
Will let you know...again, thanks.

Gary...who ha

Cheers!