Error message at boot up

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Fairly new Sony computer now shows an error message at
boot up; a few clicks on "Cancel" allows it to boot, but
I would like to know what is wrong. Can anyone help an
old man with this? Message is as follows:
"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into
drive\Device\harddisk1\DR4."
Thank you for any assistance.
 
Greetings

Does the message come from a program called "qttask.exe"? If so just
disable this part of QuickTime from loading at startup.
 
-----Original Message-----
Fairly new Sony computer now shows an error message at
boot up; a few clicks on "Cancel" allows it to boot, but
I would like to know what is wrong. Can anyone help an
old man with this? Message is as follows:
"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into
drive\Device\harddisk1\DR4."
Thank you for any assistance.


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Does the computer try to access the floppy drive on
bootup, the light will come on and you will hear it
shudder. It maybe that your bios is set to boot from
drive A first. Go into the bios and make sure the
computer is set to boot from C first, or whatever letter
your harddrive is.
 
Thank you for your response. I do not know the source
since it is just a brown box on the screen with the
message I originally sent in it. I looked in Startup and
do not see Quick Time in there, and I wouldn't have the
foggiest notion on how to eisable part of that program
anyway. I am beginning to think I made a big mistake in
getting a computer at age 68 since most suppliers provide
no help and the stuff found in so-called "help" files
uses abbreviations and terminology only understood by
computer people. I will continue to stumble along with
this for a little longer since health and family problems
will probably keep me off line for about a week. Thanks
again for your suggestion, wish I could try it. Don
-----Original Message-----
Greetings

Does the message come from a program
called "qttask.exe"? If so just
 
-----Original Message-----

Does the computer try to access the floppy drive on
bootup, the light will come on and you will hear it
shudder. It maybe that your bios is set to boot from
drive A first. Go into the bios and make sure the
computer is set to boot from C first, or whatever letter
your harddrive is.
.
Thank you for responding. The A drive does not make a
noise, the light simply comes on for a short period.
This is a problem that just started, and the computer
booted okay for some weeks before this came up. If I can
find time (health and family matters may delay me for
about a week from any attempts to find out how to go
about going into bios) I will see if I can utilize your
suggestion. At age 68, the "help" files are about as
useless as can be, and none give any directions on how to
do what they are talking about. I guess the computer
world doesn't want anyone who isn't trained in their
language and acronyms. Thanks again, I hope I can get
this solved next week. Don
 
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