We have a few Win98 and win2000 computers
that access the hard drive randomly.
The Win98 comp. seem to access the a: drive about 5 min after it boots up. This slows down the comp when it is being accessed and it will do it no matter what you are doing on the computer. It will do it even if you are not doing anything. There is no disk in the drive.
I have tried all kinds of “fixes” and none have worked.
I have tried: This is from http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article07-037
The following are possible solutions to this problem:
Clear the documents menu.
Clear Unwanted Entries from the Start Menu’s Run Command.
Check for any viruses on your system (some users have reported the NEUVILLE virus)
Search your hard disk forall .PIF that point to programs on a floppy drive
Take out LocalLoadHigh=1 from your MSDOS.SYS file.
Check HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID in the Registry for any references to OCX’s or DLL’s referenced on the floppy.
Double-click on the System icon in Control panel, choose the Device Manager tab, and delete the GENERIC FLOPPY DISK entry (found under Disk drives). When Windows restarts, it’ll re-detect the drive and the problem should go away.
Any one now of anything else to try??