No Disk -- Please Insert A Disk
I thought I'd post this in case someone else had the same thing happening to them.
For the last couple of days I was getting a huge "There's nothing in your diskdrive! Oh noes! Put a disk in there!" warning with a noisy *BWAMP* accompanying noise. It didn't tell me *which* drive was missing a disk, or have any accompanying numbers or letters, as some drive messages do. It started showing up when the computer wasn't doing anything at all, but I noticed the alert could be provoked by dragging a song from "Music" into my iPod when I had iTunes opened. The computer would freeze until I dealt with the warning -- you'd get three check boxes to click on, I think they were: Continue, Retry, and Cancel. You could click on any one or the "X" in the upper right corner to make the alert go away, but even as easy as it was to deal with in the short-term, it was still incredibly annoying.
I'd been burning music CDs for ComicbookMan to play in the store and wondered if it had anything to do with that software, which I hadn't used before and hadn't worked very well (I wound up eventually using iTunes to do the burn), but then I thought it might be a coincidence and that it might be caused by a virus. You cast about for the whys of a problem and try to make it fit the circumstances, you know? WHY IS THIS HAPPENING AND HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP?
I did a search-and-destroy with both AVG Free and SUPERAntiSpyware (paid for, not free) but didn't find any viruses at all. In the end, after messing around with the inner workings of my computer (renaming paths via Disk Management, very scary for a non-IT person like me!) and failing to fix the problem, I found a site that said that all I had to do was do a repair to either Quicktime or iTunes and that after that, I'd probably be fine. Since the problem seems to have started around the same time I updated my iTunes and Quicktime a few days ago, it did seem that that might be the cause. I repaired both softwares via the control panel's Add or Remove Programs function and it seems to be cleared up now, fingers crossed. I can drag songs into my iPod with no problems at all and I haven't had any unexpected warnings pop up.
Afterward, I removed AVG Free because it makes my computer move as s-l-o-o-o-w as molasses and freeze up for long seconds every time I try to do something. I tend to download it when I went to double-check for a virus, then dump it. For some reason AVG Free works perfectly well on our store's computer, no slow-downs or freezing at all, but my computer really hates it.
I have to say -- I am beginning to notice a trend of having a problem whenever I download updates of iTunes. Just little things, usually fixable by reformatting my iPod or rebooting the computer, but it does seem to be an annoyingly buggy little software sometimes. (Or maybe it's just pissed off that I keep refusing to download Safari?) This was the worst annoyance yet!
Hope this helps someone!
For the last couple of days I was getting a huge "There's nothing in your diskdrive! Oh noes! Put a disk in there!" warning with a noisy *BWAMP* accompanying noise. It didn't tell me *which* drive was missing a disk, or have any accompanying numbers or letters, as some drive messages do. It started showing up when the computer wasn't doing anything at all, but I noticed the alert could be provoked by dragging a song from "Music" into my iPod when I had iTunes opened. The computer would freeze until I dealt with the warning -- you'd get three check boxes to click on, I think they were: Continue, Retry, and Cancel. You could click on any one or the "X" in the upper right corner to make the alert go away, but even as easy as it was to deal with in the short-term, it was still incredibly annoying.
I'd been burning music CDs for ComicbookMan to play in the store and wondered if it had anything to do with that software, which I hadn't used before and hadn't worked very well (I wound up eventually using iTunes to do the burn), but then I thought it might be a coincidence and that it might be caused by a virus. You cast about for the whys of a problem and try to make it fit the circumstances, you know? WHY IS THIS HAPPENING AND HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP?
I did a search-and-destroy with both AVG Free and SUPERAntiSpyware (paid for, not free) but didn't find any viruses at all. In the end, after messing around with the inner workings of my computer (renaming paths via Disk Management, very scary for a non-IT person like me!) and failing to fix the problem, I found a site that said that all I had to do was do a repair to either Quicktime or iTunes and that after that, I'd probably be fine. Since the problem seems to have started around the same time I updated my iTunes and Quicktime a few days ago, it did seem that that might be the cause. I repaired both softwares via the control panel's Add or Remove Programs function and it seems to be cleared up now, fingers crossed. I can drag songs into my iPod with no problems at all and I haven't had any unexpected warnings pop up.
Afterward, I removed AVG Free because it makes my computer move as s-l-o-o-o-w as molasses and freeze up for long seconds every time I try to do something. I tend to download it when I went to double-check for a virus, then dump it. For some reason AVG Free works perfectly well on our store's computer, no slow-downs or freezing at all, but my computer really hates it.
I have to say -- I am beginning to notice a trend of having a problem whenever I download updates of iTunes. Just little things, usually fixable by reformatting my iPod or rebooting the computer, but it does seem to be an annoyingly buggy little software sometimes. (Or maybe it's just pissed off that I keep refusing to download Safari?) This was the worst annoyance yet!
Hope this helps someone!