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| 385130 | 2005-09-01 00:15:00 | When I start my computer in the morning it displays the following dialogue box "There is no disk in drive" I have three options: "Cancel" "Try again" "Continue" How can I stop this happening? :help: |
geadmbc (8812) | ||
| 385131 | 2005-09-01 00:43:00 | See if the floppy has been set to the bootdisk in the BIOS . If it has, change it to the hard drive . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 385132 | 2005-09-05 21:48:00 | the floppy was not set to boot but I still get the message | geadmbc (8812) | ||
| 385133 | 2005-09-06 01:07:00 | If you hit [cancel] does the computer boot to the hard-drive? If the computer cannot find the hard drive it will default back to trying to boot from a floopy or cd/dvd. It sure sounds like your boot sequence is set wrong. Is the dvd/cd perhaps set to boot before the hard drive? Verify that the boot sequence in the bios has the hard drive set to boot before the floppy/cd. (It sounds like you've already done this but I'm just making sure). |
JudyK (8813) | ||
| 385134 | 2005-09-06 01:51:00 | Am I correct in my strong suspicion that the computer is booting up normally (to Windows) and this error message is coming from Windows, not the BIOS? If you have recently had a CD in the drive, put one in, then right click on the drive in My Computer, and "Eject" it. (If it autoruns, just kill the programme which starts first). If you last had a floppy in, do similarly. I think what has happened is that you have shut down while a programme was using a removable disk). The programme is starting up (because you had it running when you shut down, and Windows assumes that you want to carry on). But you had taken its disk (CD?) away. So it complains. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 385135 | 2005-09-08 23:44:00 | You are right, the computer does boot normally to windows (the wallpaper and icons are displayed) before the error message appears. I have put a blank CD in the drive and ejected it and also put a floppy in the A drive and read it then taken it out. I tried putting a floppy in the A drive before the error message occured but it didn't make any difference. It possibly is not looking for something in A. |
geadmbc (8812) | ||
| 385136 | 2005-09-09 04:09:00 | Since installing Folder View recently, I've been getting the same message. If you've gone the same way try uninstalling it. | The Pom (3464) | ||
| 385137 | 2005-09-09 04:14:00 | How do you discover what programme is giving the error message? Are there error logs available in XP? Someone knows ... now we've eliminated the boot sequence. ;) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 385138 | 2006-11-30 07:51:00 | Was this issued ever solved? I have a friend who has a new HP computer, that came with a trial of Nortons on it. After uninstalling Nortons (via Control Panel or by using The Nortons Removal tool) this message comes up when windows starts. Any ideas on what could be the problem or cause of this message? Everything else seems to work fine except for this message???? Thanks as always. Mantis. |
Mantis (3703) | ||
| 385139 | 2006-11-30 07:59:00 | Control Panel/Administrative tools/Event Viewer may give you more info. | zqwerty (97) | ||
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