If all removable drives such as floppies, zips and powered down drives (i.e a spare swap drive in raid)
have this problem, I wonder why CD/DVD drives without a disk inserted aren't generating exceptions
but seemed to be ignored when they display the list of drives to select from in the dialog box?
Is Msofts software smart enough to ignore these as special cases?

have this problem, I wonder why CD/DVD drives without a disk inserted aren't generating exceptions
but seemed to be ignored when they display the list of drives to select from in the dialog box?
Is Msofts software smart enough to ignore these as special cases?
I had similar issues and some succes with setting:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows ErrorMode 2
This redirects error messages to the event queue and does not pause execution.
The default ErrorMode value is 0 and it is best that is stays there. The above tweak is a last resort.
Thanks. after searching the internet for the cause and the fix, I posted the history, AND solution about two posts
down from yours. I came across this registry fix too. Thus, by me uninstalling the floppy,zip and cd drivers
and rebooting, WMP11 problem went away. However, the IOBIT defrag didn't. At the rate IObit scans for hardware drives
until one actually starts analyzing/defragging, this error message being redirected to the system event log
will put hundress of these error messages into the log. It doesn't generate exceptions if I'm in safe mode though????
JkDefrag, MSoft defrag are able to detect the Zip drive containing a disk or not. If a disk is inserted, both programs
will display it and analyze/defrag it. If a disk is not in the drive, neither program displays the drive for it to be
selected for defragging/analyzing. In the case of IOBIT, when a disk is in the drive, there are no exceptions
and when out of the drive exceptions are generated for each drive scan. In either case, IOBIT doesn't display
the drive when there is a disk in the drive. So I can't defrag the zip drive. I presume IOBIT has a logic error
in the code and should display the drive when the disk is present.
