2007-02-01 23:22:15 · 11 answers · asked by Denise 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
ok ill give this a shot even knowing the length im gonna have to type. not sure what disc or disk, what drive, or even what your trying to do while getting this message so here goes.
if by some chance and yes ppl do still use floppy drives and this is what your talking about then 90 percent of the time its a bad FDD floppy disk drive. but just to make sure there is a slide at the corner of the disk that will write protect it needs to be able to be written to. if your tring to view it and it wont view anything then its a bad FDD and needs to be replaced. if it is an optical drive like a cdrom dvd rom cdr/rw or dvdr/rw then it could be several different things. of your just trying to read a disc and it wont read any disc then you need to check the device manager to make sure that the drive isnt listed twice and i mean that the same listing doesn t appear exactly the same way under disk drives. to get to device manager you need to right click on my computer and go down to properties and left click anything prior to XP will have a device manager tab you need to click on and Xp actually has a hardware tab you need to click on then click on the device manager button. if it is listed twice the best thing to do is reboot the pc and tap F8 to get to safe mode and check device manager again and if its still listed twice then right click on each one seperately and go to the bottom of the list again and choose remove device once all the same multiple listings in disk drives are removed reboot the pc and let it load normally and see if that fixes the problem. if not then go back to safe mode and check to see if it works properly there and if it does then there is some new sw installed on the pc that is interfering with the correct operation of the device and system restore should fix your problem if you know exactly when the last time the device worked properly and it will let you restore it. if its XP that is.98 also has an option to try and resolve that called scanreg restore but hopefully you wont have to go that far. now lastly if your trying to burn a disc and your getting this message then more than likely the disc your using has been finalized. make sure you have a new blank disc and that it has never been used and try writing to that if that doesnt work then uninstall and reinstall your burning software and that should resolve the problem. if none of this helps then please let me know.
2007-02-01 23:52:25 · answer #1 · answered by Rebel T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is asking that question, then the computer cannot read the disk and therefore assumes you want to format the disk. Try the disk in a different computer, it could be a bad floppy drive. Another solution is it could just be a dirty floppy drive, try running a floppy disk cleaner (found at any good department or stationary store) through the drive first. HTH
2016-05-24 04:45:47 · answer #2 · answered by Stella 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's asking because it's not the disk it's looking for. You more than likely had another disk in there while it was processing something. It will keep asking until you put the right one in. It would help to know what you are trying to do why it's asking for the disk. are u trying to install something?
2007-02-02 05:20:59 · answer #3 · answered by Slim Shady 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The software is programmed to do so (programmed for you to instruct to go read the drive, to proceed to the next step). If you did already but still asks you, I think there's problem with your drive or disk or maybe the software has just not found what it was looking for.
2007-02-01 23:50:10 · answer #4 · answered by alphacharlie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its because the drive is nt seen the disk.so check the disk again.is like its crack or ur cd drive is malfunction.try another disk
and if it is still the same thing that means ur disk drive is bad.
2007-02-01 23:36:43 · answer #5 · answered by Victoria A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not able to read the disk.
Go to Settings/control panel/system/hardware/device manager/properties and make sure all is ok.
It may be that your cd/dvd unit has failed or the settings are wrong. Set the unit to read all media types and see if this cures the problem
2007-02-01 23:49:21 · answer #6 · answered by robert22061954 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The disc could be scratched, or unreadable in the drive. Try the disc in another computer. See what happens
2007-02-01 23:32:29 · answer #7 · answered by bayonetpostal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its looking for the "next" disk.
Or your disk could be corrupted and unreadable.
2007-02-01 23:24:29 · answer #8 · answered by tabulator32 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not recognizing the CD... maybe it has scratches or it is dirty... take it out and clean it.... and then reinsert, if it doesn't work.. maybe the CD or disk have permanent damage....
2007-02-01 23:30:56 · answer #9 · answered by CRA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
either bad floppy or drive is not reading disc, may need to be formatted.
2007-02-02 00:04:23 · answer #10 · answered by Dennis G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋