No disk in drive warning

I get a windows warning "No disk in Drive-please place disk in drive ", but there is a disk in the drive. After hitting "continue" a number of times it goes away. Do I need to reinstall the cdrom software or NVIDIA driver or what?

 

Hi,
it may not be necessary , will you tell us when this error comes ? what's their in Windows Event Viewer ? Have you install / uninstall any Hardware or Software ?

please be more specific to get good answer !


Regards

 

Yes, it happens every time I start my PC.

 

tell something about the pc mostly ... provide details of:

1) what pc make/model
2) what OS are u running on said pc?

maybe some experience details too like 'i know nothing about pcs' 'i'm fair w/ pc skills' 'what's a disk?'


short of that, i'd suspect u'r HD is corrupt or headed that way. CHKDSK or any disk utility to 'check' it maybe ... least to start.

 

Does anything happen when you load a disk into the drive? CDs usually have an autorun file, so say you put an audio CD into the drive, does it play?

It seems to me that either it cannot "see" the disk (maybe obvious) but it could be that the reading heads are dirty...or...it is not looking at the correct drive, it may be trying to read a "virtual" drive. Another may be that it is using the wrong drivers for the drive.

First thing I would do is to go to Safe Mode, go to Device Manager and uninstall any optical drives that may be listed. The drive/s will be automatically reinstalled on reboot.

Let us know if there is any change or if you might see some sign of the cause.

Matt

 

Are you saying Bob that you get this message at bootup once Windows has loaded? Do you see the desktop just before the message appears? Then once you have clicked your way through it the CD drive works fine?

I may be wrong as you did not really give enough details for anyone to get a good handle on your problem. What Windows operating system are you running?

If your problem is as above then it sounds like Windows is looking for a particular CD. It may be that it was in use when Windows was shut down and there are still pointers in the system to that CD and windows just wants to reopen it. Can you think of any time you shut down Windows when you had something still running that was using a CD. If so try booting the computer with that CD in the drive. Try all the CDs it could be. It could even be as simple as a CD you just had open to view the files on.

It could also be some software you have loading with Windows or even your anti-virus set to scan the CD. I won’t go any further just now in case I’ve misread your problem.

 

Hi,
have u tried what suggested here by member of bbs team !
try replacing HDD DATA CABLE


Regards