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I've got two accounts set up on my 10.2.8 machine, one for me, one for my daughter.

Whenever I log in to my daughter's account, I get one (sometimes two) of the following messages:

"You have inserted a disk containing no volumes that Mac OS X can read. To continue with the disk inserted, click Ignore."

And there is a single button labelled "Ignore".

Now, there are no disks inserted. No CDs at all. I have a Mac OS 9 drive, but that's not an 'insertable' disk.

What is causing this? How do I fix it?

I've never seen this on my personal account.

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I did a little Googling and found a relevant thread on MacOSXHints, but the given solution (checking "change password") didn't solve my problem.

It seems that Panther addresses this issue, and I have it on order, so maybe for me this will be moot. But still seems like an issue that Apple should be fixing.

Anyone else have this problem?

[zachs]

Do both your OS 9 drive and startup disk show up fine?

[kennedy]

I have this same problem. The problem started co-incidentally with a hard drive problem. First, I'll describe the hard disk problem.

The drive with all my Users accounts began to get corrupted. Certain directories became unwritable and often would hang programs trying to access files in those directories. I tried running disk repair, which found errors and fixed them... but running it again showed the errors remained. I tried DiskWarrior... it too failed to fix the problems. Then the disk wouldn't even mount. I managed to re-mount the disk by booting into 9, access the disk, and then boot back into X. I copied the mis-behaving directory to another location and the copy worked fine. So, I purged the original, but it wouldn't delete completely. And then another directory got bitten by the same bug. And so on. I decided it must be a hardware problem, so I copied the disk to another, and then swapped out the drives. That problem solved.

During all the above, when I first had the drive not mount, I got the message that started this thread. When I first saw this, and then discovered the Users drive not mounted, I assumed the message was caused by the initial mount process failure... and I interpreted it to mean that while mounting the internal hard disk, it was unable to recognize the format on the hard disk, and thus it didn't mount it. When I first saw this, and then discovered the Users drive not mounted,

However, my user account continues to get that message to this day. Problem long since solved, but the message won't go away. And every time I see it, it dredges up the horrors of the above. I really wish I could make it go away.

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Originally posted by zachs:
Do both your OS 9 drive and startup disk show up fine?

Yes, no problems with either drive.

And I don't think I have any corrupt disk issues, either.

[h00ligan]

honestly the only time i have seen this is with a corrupt partition table, i would get that data backed up as fast as possible.