The drive is not ready for use.

Hello

I've enjoyed fixing my problems overtime by reading your forums. But this time I can't solve this one.

On shutdown i get:

The drive is not ready for use. It's door maybe open. Please check drive A:

I don't even have a floppy drive on this new PC. Although the icon appears in the Hard Drives/Partitions XP window (probably for nostalgia).

I've tossed out antispyware, AV, Firewall & its still there. I can't see what else it could be that is throwing up this false alert.

 

Welcome to TSG

if you don't have a floppy drive but "the icon appears in the Hard Drives/Partitions XP window" then it's not for "nostalgia" but for improper BIOS settings

disable the onboard FDD controller, set the floppy drive a: 3.5" to 'not installed'

 

Sounds good.

Umm... what key to press to get into Netbios on reboot?

 

oh-oh.

Got into NetBios. The floppy is already "disabled".

Now what?

 

NetBios?

i'm talking about the BIOS setup utility ... most computers respond to F2 or DEL during the POST screen.

 

If you do not have a floppy drive, and your BIOS has it turned off. And you are still getting that message, my best idea/guess would be that somewhere in your computer a file on shutdown is attempting to access your A: drive.