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Why does my floppy drive try to read a floppy that is not in there every time I boot or re-boot???

Why does my floppy drive attempt (try) to read a floppy disk THAT IS NOT IN THE DRIVE everytime I boot or re-boot??? This is very annoying - can it be fixed? If so, how?

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when you boot your computer, it searches for all connected devices to make sure they are present and functioning. what you are hearing is your computer checking your floppy drive. yes, it can be disabled. when you start your computer hit whatever key takes you to setup, usually "del". from there, choose advanced bios features, move down to "boot up floppy seek", choose disable. it wont search for it any more. you will still be able to use your floppy drive.
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I have to reject your answer for now to get it open for other comments...
it might due to someother program that might have trigger to load your drive during the starup. Run msconfig, to checkout from your starup files as well as win.ini, system.ini and autoexec.bat. Identify any line that ight trigger your floppy
Do you have an anti-virus program running?
Usally they are set to check a floppy by default, there may be an option to skip this.


Another place to check, open Device Manager, then click on Performace tab, now click on the File System button, now click on the Floppy Disk tab, is there a check in the "Check for new floppy disk on every boot"
Another place, if you have it set in your CMOS setup (BIOS) for boot order to be the floppy first then it will always check the floppy drive to see if there is a disk present.
I know two reasons for this behevoir, Your Antivirus is checking for a floppy when you start or shut down your comp.  You have find fast, a program bundled with MS office and is checking for files stored on floppies,
Most likely you have a VIRUS SCANNER (Norton AntiVirus perhaps) and it's setup to do a floppy disk scan at bootup.  
You can configure Norton AV as well as most other anti-V programs to NOT scan floppy drives.
split the points between rayt333, xema and jhance.  It's your anti-virus and the behavior can be disabled, you'll just have to find the setting (different places in different programs.)---Fitz
Computers is set to look for floppy boot disk , to shut this off,  go into BIOS, CMOS setting, and in one of the categorys it'll show boot order, A, C, D change it to C, A, D  keep in mind, should you ever need to boot from a disk, you'll have to change this back temporarily
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THANKS FOR SUCH A WONDERFUL AND COMPLETE ANSWER!!!