I did uninstall and reinstall McAfee because I was notified that there was an update. Maybe this started the whole mess when I did the reinstall last week. Thank you for your help. I was on the point of reinstalling Windows as the only way of resolving the issue when I found your excellently written tutorial via Google. I am running Vista but the steps are just the same. Great job! Tip: I was trying to run in a CMD window netstat -bv and i would get multiple triples of this pop-up.
These steps worked without a reboot - i no longer get error pop-ups during netstat. I will now reboot and rename my drives back to their original names and try things again.
Thank you, no reply needed. For the past three weeks I'd tried the following, a change removable drive letters, b configure using msconfig, c uninstall A drive, d update Windows XP, e use Start-up inspector for windows, and f virus scan using AVG.
Unfortunately, none of the above works. This is because the indicators light is on which means that the notebook is searching for a file or processing a task.
If the computer works well, only the switch on and charging indicator light are continuously on. Really appreciate if anyone could help. Thanks much for the info regarding the windows No-Disk exception, I will give it a try!
It is fairly common Knowledge, at least among the online circles I hang with, that MS frequently uses it's customers as their test platform. This allows getting a product to market sooner. After all, problems that customers find for them can be fixed later with a patch s , hopefully. Thanks again.
Followed your directions and it worked like a charm! Thank you so much I was just about to reformat and do a clean os install before I found your excellent site! Great work!!! I have searched everywhere for fixes, done so many things, and then I was lucky enough to find this post.
I did this, and immediately my neverwinter nights game loaded without the error message that has been plaguing me for the last few days. I would advise this fix to anyone who reads this. Simply change the way Windows is reporting hard errors and disable dialog boxes associated with them. Thank you all for your comments. I've updated the post with more detailed steps particularly for STech's comment. If my original post didn't work for you, I hope the extra steps will - e.
If trying the extra steps suggested doesn't work, please post again with details of exactly when the error started appearing i. Exactly what removable media drives do you have?
Thanx a million times. Changine the drive letters worked perfectly for me. I had just installed HotDocs , and the error was coming up only for that program. I have no idea why I had not recently installed Quicktime, did not have Norton on the computer, and my HP printer didn't seem to be the problem. However, no matter what caused it, changing the drive letters for my various USB drives including the card readers installed with my floppy drive seemed to do the trick.
Changing drive letters did not work for me. The problem starts when my friend used my notebook to do her MS Powerpoint using her thumb disk. The message disappears when I put diskette in A drive. But if I take out the disk, the AutoIt v3 message will appear. So the problem is not totally solved. Thanks for all your feedback! Ian , if in your case it's the A drive, have you tried seeing if uninstalling A drive works? Or the last resort of the registry tweak to get rid of the error message?
Did you try clearing the recent documents list from PowerPoint? It solved my problem but I used the last resort because the rest wouldn't work, is there any other methods that could solve this dumb dumb problem??? Although I know there's another method to solve this but it's not really advisable. That method is to just simply reinstall your computer but it's tedious and time consuming. I encountered a similar problem in the past and I think I solved it by updating or repairing the Quicktime player, something like that.
Seems I started getting this annoying alert after updating Quicktime. Having unistalled Quicktime, I am now not bothered with this "thorn". Thanks a lot for your help. The solution to my problem was to uninstall the older Quicktime program and then install the latest version, Chris from Thessaloniki, Greece. Tried all the recommendations and found it was Quicktime.
For me it was to do a complete uninstall of Quicktime. Man, do I feel relief. My problem was during startup after loading personal settings the desktop is displayed for 10 secs then the message appears and it goes blank Thank you for the instructions on renaming drives Please help.. Thank you very much. Thanks for your comments, please keep the feedback coming! Rich - have you tried installing an updated version of Quicktime? Or something like Super can convert mov files to other formats if you don't want to do that.
Vader - if your desktop isn't showing at all, it has to be something other than the Windows error explained here. I'm sorry I won't be able to help on that, it could be so many things. Try running another virus scanner, e. Or try a general PC help forum? Thanks a lot. Tried the drive letter changes but no luck. Then cleared the list from the start menu and magic happened.
I have been busy rebuilding my system after an XP reinstall so I cannot even guess at the initial cause of the issue. I had this no disk problem and my desktop would blink and the icons disappear as explorer would stop and restart.
Spyware and virus scans revealed nothing. Turn out it was a "shell hook" and Browser extension" that I found with this program I had to boot a super winpe disk to delete them and then all was well. I also removed the registry entries. Hello all, Had this no disk error also.
I really wanted to try the solution posted, but I was afriad of the mess I might make. Here is a link to the solution I used. I figured it could easily be undone too. My guess is that either antivirus or firewall say ZoneAlarm spur on Windows to produce the 'error' at hand. Try disabling your virtual drives would be my advice, it worked for me. I had this error on a customer in AZ. Following the instructions I discovered that the boot drive was H on an old toshiba laptop and had always been that.
In checking Disk Manager we saw that C was a removable drive. I had the user over the phone change the C to T and reboot. The errors has disappeared. Suspect a startup program this only happened after a boot was looking for a driver or data on the C drive.
Mike Shanahan. After MONTHS of seeing this bewildering message and trying almost every solution I found thank you, Google , I may have stumbled on the culprit that causes this message. Last night I was looking for some free. That nasty little message! I went through the same process 3 times to make sure the first time wasn't a fluke. I've powered up and down several times since and no message! I will continue to keep my fingers crossed that this did the trick.
Hope this helps someone! Was driving me crazy. Realized that I had shared an SD Drive as I wanted to move some files to another computer and forgot to undo the share. In my case, this "error" was from a Roxio product that installed their "media manager" also. Perhaps the install was bad, perhaps I don't really know. It was looking for drives that simply didn't exist. I couldn't remove "media manager services" alone, so had to trash the entire MyDVD studio v9.
I might get around to attempting a reinstall someday, maybe Just blogging my lesson learned, hoping it'll be useful and spare someone a headache or three. I kept getting that "Windows - No Disk" error and it was frustrating until I read your article. The Lexmark X has a photo reader slot and after you install it, you'll see a additional drive in your tree. I have been having trouble with the printer, but anyways, when I remover the USB Cable from the computer. Course now I gotta reinstall the printer software, but that's okay.
Thanks for the input. Igotta RTFM more! Hey look this is what happened to me If you have any USB cables connected to the computer or any flash drives connected disconnect them and the press cancel Thanks for the feedback, everyone!
I didn't say your drives would never work again, just that the steps are tricky which is why I provided the screenshots! What a relief, this was driving me absolutely crazy. I un-and reinstalled Quick time and it went away.
Thanks to all you guys for your help! Dirk in Belgium. Most helpfull site. Partition Magic was crashing on this system when started, it too appears to be working OK now. I was doing backup of another computer's C: disk before attempting to fix. I have followed this and other threads on the No Disk Error. Launching Norton Ghost produced the error on two of my computers. Changing the four multi-reader drive letters worked on both computers.
It seems the problem now is that the new HP device has an on-board multi-reader. When the printer is recognized by the OS, the problem returns. Disconnecting or turning it off elminates the problem. But in this case the solution is beyond my ken. The entire device is recognized by the OS as a single drive letter. Changing that letter has no affect on the problem. I seriously doubt there is a virus or malware given the number of times and ways I have scanned.
It seems quite likely that the OS is expecting media in the mutli-reader drives and returns the error when media is missing in one or more. Buy why is beyond me. I hope this adds to the discussion and helps someone identify exactly where in the OS the problem arises.
Thank you for your research and explanation! I renamed the removable drives to T, U, V, and W. I left the boot drive name alone. Problem GONE! I was trying to burn a dvd, And everything went crazy. Task bar got all screwed up also. Thanks for the help. Just an added FYI.
Joe, TheGratitudeShop. It worked!! For me: You're a Star! Sorry for the bad writing, english is'nt my main language Sincerely, Michel. Thanks so much for the solution. God Bless!!! If you don't use the drives, another trick is to just remove the drives letters Still dont know what mine was.. I do tend to pull the old card out without safely removing All that aside, Thank you.
A lot. I tried the solutions suggested different forums but no use. I saw the this forum and thought it may fix my problem and tried to follow the steps suggested for changing the drive names but i am not able to see 3rd screen in my pc it is showing blank right hand side window can any body help. Thanks much. Problem just started and I found your answer via a google search.
Renaming the media card drive letters was immediately effective. Didn't even need a reboot. EXE in memory first before removing the trigger files. A thousand thanks for these. A jerk manager used to bug me about this all the time and I could never find a solution on Google.
My solution was for him to get off his fat lazy behind and go to a machine that did not have this problem. Yep, great work - the drive letter change worked fine - although strangely it wouldn't let me change all the drive numbers - but the problematic ones those attached to a multi card reader in a new machine changed OK and the problem seems to have disappeared - but I am not relaxing yet!
I scanned my pc with Avira Antivirus tool GmbH. It solved the problem and my system is virus free now. Hope this tool will help you guys. Thanks for the info , this has been nagging me for a couple of weeks now.
I have not read all of the comments, or have I tried the fix es as yet, but after reading this forum, I am sure of the cause of my problem and I wanted to add my experience to this forum. I first had the No Disk message appear after using my card reader, and subsequently removing the media, for the first time after installing a MyBook drive. When I installed the drive, all of my drive letters changed, including the drive letters for the four slots in the card reader.
It has popped up many times since and today is the first opportunity I have had to research it. Thanks again for the info. Take mine for what value it may have to anyone who reads it.
My greatest thanks from me too!!! I had changed the drive letters to suite my needs days ago and today i was about to murder my pc unit. Fortunately, i googled the error and found your pc-life saving solution! I changed the 4 card reader slots and the dvd driver's letter and "salvation". Thank you again for your help I think I have this drive problem.
One thing, My Hard disk is listed as F: drive for some reason. Should I change this to C: or will it cause a problem? Thank you all for the feedback, I'm delighted it helped. Last Anon, sorry but don't know enough about your system to comment. Thanks for the fix. I only get this error when I plug in my external HD and fire up Drive Image, to make a system backup.
Now, no errors, and the program runs like a charm. I didn't even have to reboot! Much appreciated. Thank you so much for your solutions. I didn't think I would get any result with the cryptic-looking error message, but I was pleasantly surprised. You are a kind soul! Thank you again :. To add to everything said, I encountered the parameters 75b6bf7c, the '7' being where the '9' was in the discussed parameters.
I found that this message was due to a removable disk, in my case a SanDisk Card Reader, trying to read from a card that wasn't there. Unplug the card reader. Simple as that.
Hi, I have the same problem with this error. I noticed that when my memory card isnt inserted,thats the time that the error kept on appearing I also kept on running the registry mechanic and it found some low,medium and high priority probs I tried the steps that you posted,scanning,renaming So now,i just kept on inserting the memory card but still i really wanna get rid of this thing Pls help????
I had changed the drive letters. I changed the name to disks and it looks that works. I think iPodCalSync was doing it to me. Which is a shame, because that's a useful little program. I'll just have to start it up manually when I want to sync my ipod and exit it afterward. Changing all my drive letters did not work. Maybe this will help others with this program on their computer. As soon as I realized the problem I reassigned the original drive letters, but no success. Roxio still can not find the burner and I was never able to retrieve about 50 years of music, photos and documents from the archive drive and finally had to reformat the drive.
Awesome fix. This was bugging me for a while and switching drive letters worked a treat. Same for me. I can't even remember how I got into this mess, but changing the drive letter worked perfectly. If I insert a 4Gb or anything else, it works, doesn't seem to work with my 2Gb which worked before, any help? Many thanks for all your feedback, it's good to hear, especially when it's worked for you!
Such a shame about your hard drive Anon. No idea if it would help, but who knows Thanks - I googled windows-no disk and found your great help strings. This behavior is caused by one of your startup programs. I suggest that you boot in Clean Boot Mode to narrow down the root cause.
Clean boot. This method will help us determine if this issue is caused by a loading program or service. Please perform the following steps:.
Click the Start Button type "msconfig" without quotation marks in the Start Search box, and then press Enter. Then, restart the computer. For more information about this step, please refer to the following KB article:.
How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista. Office Office Exchange Server. Sign in to vote. Friday, August 29, AM. Saturday, August 30, PM. Ronnie, This message occurs everytime I turn my Canon printer on. Saturday, September 27, PM. Proposed as answer by abu hena mostafa kamal Thursday, August 5, PM. Monday, October 6, PM. Wednesday, October 29, PM. Friday, July 10, AM. Hi, When you boot to Windows all drives can be potentially flagged for an automatic Check Disk scan, not just the partition you're booting to, so that part is normal.
Proposed as answer by paulqandrew Saturday, February 18, PM.
0コメント