ACCESS to floppydrive

[jos 0]

At irregular moments a popup appears and says that the floppydrive contains no disk and asks to put a disk in it.

Any idea what this can be ?

I use Windows2000 Professional - SP2 on a HP Vectra PII-350 - 128MB Ram

 

thanks

 

Jos

[pbuckne 0]

I have seen the identical error on Windows NT for the last couple of years. I work for a VERY large corporation, and we get to see some of the weird stuff...

Anyway, we found that more often than not these two situations:

1, the user has saved a file to floppy, then removed it, and the windows environment is searching for a tmp file on the diskette (same as it would in the temp dir, or where ever the file originated) periodically in a effort to clean up after itself.

Solution: Place a floppy disk into the drive with a tmp file on it, I've copied them from another machines temp dir, and placed them there. The PC will scan the diskette after awhile, nail the temp file, and be on its merry way once more.

2, once, when the none of the tmp files we placed on the diskette got a response, we actually recreated the customers profile, and this resolved the issue.

 

Either way, hope it helps. :-)

[jos 0]

thank you very much for your tips but I found the solution : there was a 'a:' in the path in 'autoexec'; I removed it and the popup is gone

 

jos

[pbuckne 0]

thanks for following up. I've added that tech byte to my mental bag O tricks... happy 'puting