My computer boots up to the hard drive as directed in the systems setup. After the boot, an error message comes up “There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into the drive.” A drive letter is not sepecified but a light goes on in the floppy just before this error. It does not matter whether I choose Retry, Cancel. The error message disappears, and all works fine. If I put any disk into the floppy before booting, there is no error message. Anyone have any ideas re: this strange behavior?
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No disk in drive (xp sp2)
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AskWoody LoungerSeptember 28, 2005 at 10:09 pm #976026This sounds akin to the problem with an unwanted folder opening at startup – see if the suggestions in the thread beginning with post 443,546 help.
I also have a recollection of an entry in your recent Documents list, last saved to the A-drive, causing similar problems – I’ll see if I can locate that thread…
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