There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive a: 1

[jskang]

When I logged in windows XP and take to the desktop, the message box appeared many times and say

"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive A:"

cmd.exe - No disk.

You have to click cancel many time to stop the message.

Every time I want to install a new program from the cd-rom, the same message appeared again.

This really annoyed me! Is there a way to prevent the message happen again? If yes, how to remove it?

If you put a blank floppy disk in, then there is no message.

JSKANG

 

[garebo]

You could check your bios and make sure that the floppy drive is not listed as a boot item. That may help.
Actually, i think there may be more to this but right now google isnt working for some reason.



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[danno74]

Check out your Startup menu under Start-Programs. There may be some awry program that for some reason is looking for the A: drive.

 

[garebo]

Good point!


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[jskang]

Thanks garebo and danno74

I have a look at this. Also how to get to BIOS?

JSKANG

 

[garebo]

When your computer first boots up keep clicking on the "del" key. Dont hold it down but keep clicking it. At some point you will enter the bios. It may be a blue color on your screen, but it could be another color, even black
and white.
There are many sections in the bios and you must be very careful. And when you make any change in the bios you must first save then exit and not just exit.

Best thing to do is to let us know if you were able to get into the bios and out again. Just get in and leave and let us know. Then we can give you instructions on how to make the changes you might need to make. Some bios have a different way to get in, some are by clicking the F2 button instead of the "del" button.
Best to leave the monitor warm up for ten minutes before you turn your pc on, that way you will see the first screen that comes up. The first screen will tell you what you need to do to get into the bios. It will probably say something like " hit "del" to enter bios".



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[jskang]

Yes, I got this far to enter the BIOS.

In the advanced BIOS features as shown below:

Hard Disk boot priority press enter
First Boot device floppy
Second Boot device CDROM
Third Boot device Hard Disk
Boot other device Disabled
Swap floppy drive Disabled
Boot up floppy seek Disabled
Boot up NumLock Status On
Gate A20 option Fast
Security Setup
APIC Mode Disabled

I tried first boot device disabled not floppy but the same error appeared. Don't know what to do next?

JSKANG

 

[temporello]

I've seen similar problems when the media was removed when a program still wanted to access it.

Try to put a floppy in the drive.
View the contents of drive A: in my computer,close the window.
Remove the floppy disk.
You can do the same with your CD drives as well.

 

[garebo]

Change your hard disk boot priority to:

first boot device - ide 0 (usually your first hard drive)
second boot device - cdrom
third boot device - can be ide 0 again or cdrom

Then the floppy drive may stop doing this.

in the future if you should have to re-install windows or use your emergency recovery, you will have to change the boot devices but for a working system the above is good.



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[jskang]

I changed the hard disk boot priority. Still the same error message after I log in.

 

[garebo]

Very strange.
Some program must be calling for a floppy from your floppy drive.

How up are you on msconfig?
If you go to run and type in msconfig and press enter, then the mscofig.exe program will come up. If you go to the startup section it lists all programs that start up when windows is booted up. And very often, if not checked a lot, then many programs believe they are so important they should start up with windows, when its not true at all.
check in there and see what you can uncheck. IT may be one of those programs that is calling for the floppy drive.



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[garebo]

Sorry, i had to run when i last posted.
I wanted to add that there are some listings that you wont understand in the "startup" section. Meaning that you wont know if they need to be listed and checked or not. But some should be obvious. One that is bad for this is adobe and the adobe acrobat reader. That can be unchecked. You may have to play around with this a bit. You have to save and exit msconfig and reboot either right away or later. When you reboot you will get a notice that you can check off not to come back up again. Either way you can play around and see just what you need at startup. One way or another you will see some that should stay checked, like your antivirus, any popupstoppers, or anything like spybot you should leave the check mark there. Another one came to mind, bad as adobe, its quick time, qttask if i recall correctly, you will find that in msconfig startup if you have quicktime installed.
Dont forget to save, exit and reboot.
If that doesnt do the job then i am afraid you may have to go thru each of the programs you have and check out the settings and preferences as likely one of them is set to check the floppy drive.
Im not the best by any means but in this case i think its pretty good advice.



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