Comments on: No Disk, error message c0000013 on starting a computer

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:54:31 +0000

My friend has caught a virus and cannot use the run operation and cannot use his cd drive because the virus has infected it how can he reboot his whole computer back to the basics like when he bought it without these options. For answers e-mail redfire_desire@hotmail.com

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Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:42:36 +0000

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By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:57:27 +0000

I am having this problem if I use the DVD and get this error the immediately upon removing the media. It’s a brand new computer system, haven’t had Norton antivirus installed because it’s win xp 64 bit and it wasn’t compatible. So, do I need to leave a CD in all the time or does anyone have an idea here. Just as a side note, the first time (and only time) I went to the windows update site, only chose the critical updates, my system blue screened and crashed and I had to go back to the last known working config to get the system up and running again. Uninstalled all the updates. However this problem was here prior to that. Just an FYI.

By: Itachi

Itachi — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:50:31 +0000

I have XP SP2 and I found out that if the usb card reader is attached,with no card it will cause the error

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:03:13 +0000

Thanks for your site.

I think the problem is with Vista and not so-called problem programs. Here is why:

Any access (testing for a disk loaded) to a drive with no media inserted will cause this problem. I have tried dozens of ways to get around this in my programs (until Vista, perfectly acceptable). It’s never been a problem with XP or any other OS.

The only solution to date is to always have a cd in the drive. That will work only if you don’t use your dvd drive.