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#! rnews 2638 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!posts.execpc.com!usenet From: "Rip McManus" <ripperm@execpc.com> Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.acer,alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq,alt.sys.pc-clone.dell,alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000,alt.sys.pc-clone.micron,alt.sys.pc-clone.midwest-micro,alt.sys.pc-clone.zeos,biz.marketplace.computers.pc-clone,comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.bugs.misc,comp.b Subject: Re: Computer always searches A: Drive? Date: 3 Apr 1997 04:09:02 GMT Organization: Rip McManus Lines: 30 Message-ID: <01bc3fdb$a7d25b60$2d0ccfa9@ripperm.execpc.com> References: <01bc3e02$9b424700$b6742399@marc-s-laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: carbon.execpc.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.sys.pc-clone.acer:2405 alt.sys.pc-clone.dell:18787 alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000:73608 alt.sys.pc-clone.micron:18817 alt.sys.pc-clone.zeos:4325 biz.marketplace.computers.pc-clone:30201 comp.bugs.4bsd:2171 comp.bugs.misc:1684 I'll add another response to the mix. There's a nasty boot sector virus that will cause this, too. The fact that it happens in multiple applications makes me suspicious of the "last file was saved to A:" variety of responses. I believe the virus was called FORMA, but I could be wrong. Get hold of a guaranteed clean bootable floppy with fdisk on it, write protect it, boot from it, switch to C:, and enter a:fdisk /mbr Remove the disk and reboot. If you had this virus, it'll be gone. If you didn't have the virus, you won't have hurt anything. Keep the clean boot disk for future boot sector virus eradication. Marc Stayman <jeramiah@earthlink.net> wrote in article <01bc3e02$9b424700$b6742399@marc-s-laptop>... I have this deviling problem and I need some help. I run among other things WP 6.1 (16 bit) and Office 95 and whenever I goto file open, the computer trys to open the A:\ drive. Of course there is nothing there so I have to wait several seconds while it tries. Even if there is a diskette in the drive it goes to look. Even if the last file I opened was on the C:\ drive, it goes to the A:\ Drive. Even when the default drive in File Open is the C:\ is looks to A:\ First. This happens in WordPerfect, and Excel. It also searches the drive when I use Netscape or when I load a new page in Netscape. I have seen other computers do this but have never figured out why. I suspect WP has something to do with it as well. If you have figured out how to fix this, please drop me an email. Thanks. -- Marc