Topic awaiting preservation: There is no disk in drive

Just installed a fresh copy of XP Pro on my new 100gb hd. I'm trying to install my mobo's drivers but everytime the installer gets running this message pops up

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There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \device\harddisk1\dr1

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Other oddities include "my computer" taking a long time to respond and cd's taking absurdly long to autorun. I have installed all "critical" updates.

Anyone?

Edit: Add to that regular but seemingly spontaneous freezing when dealing with CDs and/or My Computer.

Edit2: Now the CD drive is just gone. Not being recognized by windows. The freezing problems seem to have stopped but I can't install anything so the benefits are questionable.

Edit3: Forget previous edits. I'm a total idiot. . . and a little tired. The stupid CD was filthy. Cleaning helped. Original problems are still occuring.

[This message has been edited by SPyX (edited 01-25-2004).]

[This message has been edited by SPyX (edited 01-25-2004).]

[This message has been edited by SPyX (edited 01-25-2004).]

Just curious: is this a new computer or an old one with a new HD?
Is this the only HD? Where is the old one?
Are you installing multiboot?

Sound like an EIDE controller going out.




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It is a new hd that I just put into my system. Not sure what you mean by "old computer." The main components are kind of old. A year or two.

I'm just trying to understand what's going on.
You may have added a 2nd HD, you may have replaced the old one with this new one, you may be using an add-on EIDE card with this new HD, you may be trying to use multiboot, etc...
It's not that I will be able to help, but without knowing what's going on, there is no way to _try_ to help.

I've just got online after doing a complete reinstall of XPHome on a new 80gig HDD. I notice the same problem too immediately after the reinstall. I'd put a disk in any drive and it was not recognised, auto run does not run. Does that sound like it? First check that you have autoplay selected. The problem dissapeared for me after I decided to install ALL of the Service Packs and the "Critical Updates" from the Windows Update site.
[edit] Oops and also installed the ones that affected the operating system but were not deemed to be critical.. I've just realised that you already seemed to have followed those steps. All that I can really say is that it just seemed to clear itself up. Sorry I can't be of more help[/edit]

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[This message has been edited by Taobaybee (edited 01-26-2004).]

Since when did autoplay become a good feature ? Just had to add that, I have to say I absolutely hate it, you dont know whats going on when you try play a Music CD and your computer starts struggling to display some macromedia junk that takes 10 minutes to close to find its installed all sorts of crap use-it-once multimedia extranveganzas.

If someone can't navigate their way to the CD Drive in any OS they should probably learn how, instead of hoping it does it itself. I can't wait till someone puts an eject command in the autoplay.

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Anyway .. I really meant to reply with this:

"Sound like an EIDE controller going out.".
This happened to an old 200mhz machine I had, was just wondering can I get an EIDE controller card instead of replacing the motherboard ? The latter doesn't seem worth it. It happened soon after I got a new PC so I didn't care much, but I could use the machine as an MP3 duke box or at least have starfield simulation on 24/7 in the corner of my room.

Something to try would be removeing the drive cables and then plugging them back in.
A loose cable could cause what looks like a more serious problem.

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