Hi, My PC’s has been trouble free for the last 16 months! no viruses, spyware or anything! but in the last week i’ve been getting a message that pops up every 5-10 minutes saying the following:
svchost.ese – no disk
There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive D.
You then have to hit cancel 10-20 times until is goes.
Any ideas how to solve this one?
Cheers.
Tags: "svchost.exe, Disk, Error, This
hi
when you start up svchost loads services from the registry to run. there can be more than one instance of svchost in the task manager (conrol-alt-delete)
if your main boot drive (the one with windows on) has been renamed then it could be the case that a removeable drive is now calling it’s self c drive.
for example if windows resides on d: and c: is a memory stick drive then svchost will be looking for the services to load in the c drive. so if there is nothing in c: it will ask you to load the disk (whereas in reality it should be looking in d:)
click start- my computer to check which drive has the windows folder and then rename the drive if neccessary.
feel free to mail me for further advice/help
If this is only happening when you are on line it is caused some idiot sending you the message by hijacking your windows Messenger program. Run your machine for a while without logging on to the Internet, if it does not happen when you are not connected then the above case is true.
If you want to stop the Messenger service from popping the window up stop it from Auto starting when your machine boots up.
To do this install a program called “Autoruns” and uncheck the program you do not wish to start on boot up. In this case “Messenger” which sends and receives messages transmitted by administrators or by the Alerter service.Microsoft Corporationc:winntsystem32services.ex…
“Autoruns” is very easy to use and it is free, be carefull not to stop any vital system programs from auto running on boot up, but switching off “Messenger” is OK though, I turned mine off months ago after it kept popping up and telling me to contact some young lady somewhere.
Get “Autoruns” from :-http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinte…
It would also be usefull for you to get PsKill to stop any process you do not want running :-
Also get “Process Monitor” and see what is running when you get the pop up :- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinte…
If it does turn out to be Internet based interference I would suggest you get a good ‘port access blocker’ like “ZoneAlarm” version 6.5.737.000 you can run this at the same time as your usual virus checker. I get along OK with the free version, but it is only £12 for the full version
Get it from :-http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/co…