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1136947 2010-09-14 19:45:00 Your wife will hate you because you'll be one of those people that looks young even when old.......:D

Mine hates me for the same reason so she made me keep the beard after my 6 days out in the back blocks caving last Christmas
gary67 (56)
1136948 2010-09-14 22:15:00 I did advanced Google search using your keywords (and combo's), and this site pops up often: VMware Digest (blogs.vmware.com). Might suggest issues with VMware. The site has dozens of articles, with mention of VMware tools. kahawai chaser (3545)
1136949 2010-09-14 23:35:00 Does anything show up in the event logs?

There was, but the error popped up around the 7th of the month and we just did nothing about it for a week because we knew it wouldn't affect anything, until curiosity got the better of me and I had to investigate it further.
It's been going on for a wee while now, and it's not a critical error because everything's working while that error's on-screen, with the exception of SNMP monitoring.

Yes, we're backing it all up regularly. :banana

I tried making an empty disk image in linux and formatting it as FAT12, so I've mounted that disk image in vmware tools in a bid to see if it was trying to write to the floppy drive. We tried messing with the CDRom drive letter / connection / disconnection and it still kept coming up :(

So, this morning, no error on screen. I *thought* it was occurring daily so it may be that the floppy disk image has resolved it? Who knows ... Guess I'll just have to wait a few more days and see.

I'll look into the VMWare Digest site now and see what that brings up, in case it is vmware specific. Thing is we've got about 30 other VM's here, mostly Server 2003 / 2008r2, yet none of them have the issue :-/

Still, in the mean time, I'm all ears for any additional suggestions!

Thanks


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
1136950 2010-09-15 00:55:00 Maybe check out here (communities.vmware.com), and the last post, where it was something to do with a shared folder having a missing directory within VMWare. kahawai chaser (3545)
1136951 2010-09-16 23:26:00 Was the issue resolved - and if so, what was the cause? Thanks... kahawai chaser (3545)
1136952 2010-09-16 23:51:00 So far, by mounting the virtual disk image, things seem OK.

No idea why ... or what's causing it ... But yeah things seem OK now I've got that virtual floppy drive mounted.

Odd indeed!
Chilling_Silence (9)
1136953 2010-09-27 19:58:00 Almost two weeks on now, and it appears as though mounting the virtual floppy image I create has solved the issue.

The question now:
What on earth on that machine was looking for something in the floppy drive?!
Chilling_Silence (9)
1136954 2010-09-27 20:04:00 A/V schedule? SolMiester (139)
1136955 2010-09-27 22:36:00 Nope, no A/V scheduled scans. Updates daily at 9:30AM (The error was occuring around 7:45 -> 8AM).

Nothing in windows scheduled tasks either.
Chilling_Silence (9)
1136956 2010-09-27 23:37:00 You might find clues by reading the comments from the MS Article from pctek; Some seem to blame a USB drive not being removed properly (and then reinserted), which had triggered the error you receive - basically trying to find a drive that was present. Apparently ini files (I think) were copied over causing issues. Yet another says a bios type virus, and so on.

One person even blamed a USB mouse/software. Another traced by using Task manager (when pressing "try again"), and found a cyber link service and stopped by starting in msconfig.
kahawai chaser (3545)
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