[_RR]

I get a brief flash of a window when XP shuts down. I haven't seen
anything in the Event Viewer. I finally saw it in slow-mo. It says:
"The drive is not ready for use. Its door may be open" That's all I
got before XP shut down.

I've heard that this is a legacy error message that used to relate to
5-1/4" floppies, and sometimes gets triggered by something else.

Does anyone have any idea what this is, or how I can freeze XP to get
the full message? A tracing utility would be nice, but I doubt that
anyone has thought about tracing shutdown.

[Rich Barry]

See if this is any help. Also check your Ram.
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=17204&messageID=188813


"_RR" <_RR@nomail.org> wrote in message
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>I get a brief flash of a window when XP shuts down. I haven't seen
> anything in the Event Viewer. I finally saw it in slow-mo. It says:
> "The drive is not ready for use. Its door may be open" That's all I
> got before XP shut down.
>
> I've heard that this is a legacy error message that used to relate to
> 5-1/4" floppies, and sometimes gets triggered by something else.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what this is, or how I can freeze XP to get
> the full message? A tracing utility would be nice, but I doubt that
> anyone has thought about tracing shutdown.
>

[_RR]

>"_RR" <_RR@nomail.org> wrote in message
>news:c2omb1l80v5cktc2nfr2shhaqjj48imcpa@4ax.com...
>>I get a brief flash of a window when XP shuts down. I haven't seen
>> anything in the Event Viewer. I finally saw it in slow-mo. It says:
>> "The drive is not ready for use. Its door may be open" That's all I
>> got before XP shut down.

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:40:07 GMT, "Rich Barry"
<rbarryNot@socal.rr.com> wrote:

> See if this is any help. Also check your Ram.
>http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
>http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=17204&messageID=188813

Thanks, Rich. I've been meaning to do a RAM test anyway, but I don't
follow the connection between RAM integrity and the 'drive door'
message. Do you remember where you heard this?

I'd love to find a service/utility that can monitor XP shutdown and
log to a file (like the boot log does). Anyone know of anything?
I'm just looking for more clues at this point.