joshsiao came the closest, but it didn't register to me then.

This website talked about 95 and 98 but one line in it made a light bulb go off in my head. I tried some of the things they talked about anyway, but had no luck finding anything.

Enter the light bulb:

To avoid getting this random disk access again, avoid launching documents and programs off floppy disks.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache...2Baccess&hl=en
Several weeks ago I needed to find an old password. I have a small little proggy that is self-executing and doesn't install. It's on a floppy along with the associated files with my passwords. So when I went to look for that old password, I opened the files with the .exe on the floppy.

I started out with the File Types and deleted the file association to it. That didn't do it. Off to the registry.

I don't know why...perhaps a typo...but the name of the little program didn't come up searching the registry. (It should have. It was named in the entries I did find by searching for the file extension for it.)

The file extension happened to be MSS. I can't tell you how many hundreds of valid entries for Microsoft contain mss!!! But I plodded through them all and came across three.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (two matches)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
and they each had references to A: drive and the name of my program.

I deleted them and now I have a very quiet computer again.