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Floppy seek at win95 desktop?
Name: Ioan Jones Date: November 10, 1998 at 11:28:24 Pacific
Comment:
When I boot my machine into Win 95, The floppy disk starts seeking for the next 2 mins, unless I put a disk in the drive, I have scanned for viruse any ideas???
Several posible reasons. 1) do you have any shortcuts in either your start-up folder or on your desktop that are pointing to a file on your a: Drive? If so you need to delete them. 2) check your documents folder off your start button and see if any of the files listed there were on your a: Drive. If so then this is the problem. To resolve the problem go to c:\windows\recent folder, where you will find a listing of all your recent files, delete the one which is from a floppy.
One of these should resolve your problem. If not please e-mail me at mntucker@puritanquartz.com and I will work you through it.
MNT
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Response Number 3
Name: Neil Narula Date: July 8, 1999 at 11:08:40 Pacific
Reply:
have tried your suggestions and deleted all documents in c:\windows\recent folder and also checked the desktop for shortcuts to the "a" drive. please advise if you have any further suggestions.
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