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Posted by Chip Gelmini (Member # 44) on December 08, 2008, 11:53 AM:

E machines model w 3118

windows xp service pack 2

See picture below...

Upon boot up I get this error. Click a couple of times, then it's gone for the session. But it always happens. How do I get rid of it for good. I do not know which disk drive it is referring to, but I suspect it might be cdrom.

I am having trouble locating possible driver information. Tech support at Emachines is horrible...won't try that again. And I hate the fact I might have to reformat and replace everything just to get rid of this problem!

HELP!

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 08, 2008, 02:53 PM:

Chip,

Did you recently upload some kind of file, whether from floppy drive or CD Rom?

If so, it may be the kind of program that, in order to finish it on your computer, you have to load it back in one more time to have that finished. A number of older floppy disc files were especially notorious for this kind of thing.

You remember, three or four floppy discs long and you'd put the next one in, then your computer would have you reload the last one in for some form of verification, that you'd go right back the next one you JUST LOADED in.

I don't know if this is true in your case, but I hope that it helps.

Posted by Chip Gelmini (Member # 44) on December 08, 2008, 04:44 PM:

I don't think so, but I understand what you are telling me.

All the devices seem to be working perfectly EXCEPT the internal CDROM drive, which I might have to replace because I can not locate the drivers for it.

I have the system restore disc: Can someone tell me how to pull only the files that I need, without having to reformat and reinstall everything?

Thanks!

Posted by Chip Carpenter (Member # 1330) on December 09, 2008, 08:39 AM:

Chip - I don't think a reformat should be necessary - it looks like it's trying to access a drive to get a specific file. I would check you start up list, because there's likely something in there that is looking a disk in either the CDROM or in the floppy drive if you have one . . . check the preferences for the start up applications and see if any of them are pointing to data files on something other than the harddrive.

Hope this helps,
Chip

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