"The drive is not ready for use; its door may be open"

[_RR]

I'm still trying to solve the error that results in the message:
"The drive is not ready for use; its door may be open. Please check
drive A: and make sure that a disk is inserted and that the drive door
is closed."

This usually shows up on shutdown, strangely enough. It was a very
brief flash, but the window has persisted a bit longer lately.

I just saw the message while trying Panda's online 'ActiveScan,' which
would imply that their scanning module initially thinks that Drive A
is active, but when tried, it fails to find a diskette.

It could be that there is a flag that tells the XP kernel and apps
that there is no diskette present, and that the flag is not working
correctly.

Running XP Sp1 with latest (non-SP2) updates.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I'm still trying to solve the error that results in the message:
"The drive is not ready for use; its door may be open. Please check
drive A: and make sure that a disk is inserted and that the drive door
is closed."

This usually shows up on shutdown, strangely enough. It was a very
brief flash, but the window has persisted a bit longer lately.

I just saw the message while trying Panda's online 'ActiveScan,' which
would imply that their scanning module initially thinks that Drive A
is active, but when tried, it fails to find a diskette.

It could be that there is a flag that tells the XP kernel and apps
that there is no diskette present, and that the flag is not working
correctly.

Running XP Sp1 with latest (non-SP2) updates.

Sounds like PANDA is doing a drive check at shutdown (Symantec and most
other active AV scanners do.) I don't have Panda installed right now -
but... If you look through the options or search the help - it should list
the "scan the floppy on shutdown" option somewhere.