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    Weird message on M17 RX3

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Scottyboy99, Nov 17, 2011.

  1. Scottyboy99

    Scottyboy99 Notebook Consultant

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    Does anyone else get this?

    Basically I'll boot up my machine and then open ‘My Computer’. Then I’ll insert a USB stick or a dvd. Everything happens normally. However with ‘My Computer’ still open I will right click the USB stick and click eject & a message will always pop up. Most commonly ‘Explorer.exe – No disk’ ‘There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive\Device\Harddisk1\DR1’. The box gives options to cancel, continue & re-try. If I click cancel the box will re-appear. Basically I have to click through it about 5 or 6 times before it eventually disappears. After that all is fine and dandy.

    If I eject using the icon in the system tray I don't get the same problem. Likewise with a DVD, if I use the button on the top right of the laptop to eject the dvd the error message doesn't happen. It's only when ejecting using right click, eject on the drive within 'my computer'.

    It’s also odd because it only does it once. Subsequent ejections of a dvd or USB stick are then fine. Until the next boot anyway. I have managed to stop / suppress the error by changing the errormode in the registry to 2. However it’s not a real fix. As far as I can see there are no side effects, everything works absolutely fine but it does concern me. I have trawled google til I’m blue in the face with no joy. The common issue being that the USB stick has been assigned the C: letter and to change it in disk management but that doesn’t apply to me as it always gets assigned as E: whilst my DVD drive is D: Is it possibly some kind of other issue? Is Roxio to blame? Maybe something else? It’s not a major issue, more a minor irritation but I would like to try and fix it and maybe see if others running the M17rx3 have ever seen the same?

    Thanks,
    Wayne
     
    Scottyboy99, Nov 17, 2011
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