Nimbus

Getting this message on my Win2K laptop every so often...

Fig

Looks like it is trying to find a disk which has been removed.

Do you have a zip drive / smart card reader / similar installed, or have you removed any hardware recently?

Nimbus

Yes, I've got a zip drive plugged in but, to para-phrase, "it's never done that before"

I've put a disk in and not had the problem since.


Phewwww!

Fig

OK, it will be because you removed the disk from the zip drive whilst it was still "in use". The system remembers the last state, so expects to find a disk there now and keeps looking for it.

To prevent this happening in future, try to remember to eject disks using explorers eject option (it's on the menu if you right-click the zip drive icon,)instead of pressing the eject button on the drive.

HTH

Nimbus

Not sure if that's the cause. I booted up this morning with the drive attached and had not used it at all today. The only time it had a disk in it was when I tried it to stop the errors.

Fig

Try ejecting disk using above method, and see if the problem returns.

Nimbus

Yep, as soon as the disk came out the error popped up.

Fig

What drive letter is the zip drive set as?

Nimbus

E: but I don't know what difference that will make?

A: Floppy
C: Local
D: CD-ROM
E: Zip
F: Network
Etc...

Fig

Was just looking though the Microsoft knowledgebase, and there is an article relating to a similar message with XP, where the removeable drive is set as C:

here it is

Nimbus

Thanks for looking into it.