keeps checking A drive when downlaoding

Hi my pc keeps checking my A drive, multiple times in a row, every time i try to download something to my C; drive. I'm always choseing a folder on my C drive of course. It checks and then pauses, rechecks and pauses, eventually a connection to the C drive gets through and the download starts. But sometimes if it checks the A drive several times in a row the download will start to C drive and then another check for the a drive interupts, and my Firfox downlaod window says the downlaod was finshed almost as soon as it started. It also checks the A drive once the downlaod finishes.

This has been going on for so long i can't remember what could have caused it. I can't be sure, but it MAY have been after i created and tested an emergency boot disk, when considering reformating my hard drive. Or it may have been after i downlaoded something off the net directly to a floppy.

This has been happening with Firefox. When i try useing IE i sometime times works without a hitch but other times i get this pop-up that says: " file could not be written to the cache" and the downlaod doesn't even work

Whatever the case there seems to be some wires crossed somewhere. Any ideas?

Keith Win98SE

 

As a first suggestion I would run CCleaner which can be found here

 

I have run CCleaner and it did not make a difference. A drive keeps getting checked.

Anyone have any ideas?