How to Stop XP from looking for floppy in drive A:?

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I used the Sysinternals and found what is bringing up this error!

What happens is that when XP boots, it, for some reason, is looking for a disk...even a blank...in Drive A:. XP finishes booting but the Error Window says ...

WINDOWS NO DISK with an exception processing message. It then gives me the choice of Cancel Try Again or Continue.

If I put a blank Floppy in Drive A:. the message will go away if I tell it to Try Again.

Anyway, I used Process Explorer (great tool) and if I move the TARGET Icon over the Error Window it says that it is CSRSS.EXE that is causing this. This is a Client Server Runtime Process.

Any ideas how to stop this? All I ever did was put a blank in and copied a small data file on it.
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Go from Start to Run and in the open box, type msconfig then press Enter. Click the StartUp tab and look down the list for anything that calls for the a:\ drive. if you find it, untick it, click Apply then OK your way out and restart the machine. When it comes back up, tick the "Don't show this message again" box and hit Enter.

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Yes, I am going to disable it in Device Manager first, then BIOS if that does not work. I was trying to see if I can fix it, however, as it never happened before this, and I had used the floppy once in a while. Not sure why XP wants a disk...even a blank...in the floppy drive now.
 
Go from Start to Run and in the open box, type msconfig then press Enter. Click the StartUp tab and look down the list for anything that calls for the a:\ drive. if you find it, untick it, click Apply then OK your way out and restart the machine. When it comes back up, tick the "Don't show this message again" box and hit Enter.
 
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Nothing in Startup, but I did disable the floppy drive in Device Manager and that worked. Perhaps I can enable it again in a few weeks and see if it is OK again.