Re: [GD-Windows] "Windows - No disk" error

[Chris C. <ch...@bl...>]

Not sure about the specifics of the error dialog, but it would be
interesting to know what was generating it - low level from inside a system
call, or generated by your code as a response to a standard error?

Is the user running the same anti-virus software? In my experience looking
over crash reports from end-user machines (usually sporadic crash reports
from PCs used by hospital staff), there was often interference with disk
access. We never nailed down an exact diagnosis, but we inferred that if the
app was trying to access the file system in an odd or low level way, the AV
might be interpreting that as a viral attack and blocking it, or at least
changing the access characteristics enough to cause a crash. We added a
switch to swap some of the more low level disk usage that we'd put in for
performance reasons for standard file calls to the next version in an
attempt to improve compatibility. Never stayed with the product for long
enough to find out whether it fixed their problem though, sorry.

Chris Chapman
(Director)
Black Company Studios

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Pierre Terdiman <pie...@gr...>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I got a report saying one of my programs displayed this error message on a
> WinXP machine:
>
> http://www.consumingexperience.com/2007/11/windows-no-disk-exception-processing.html
>
> Problem is: I have no idea why. I ran the same program on many different
> machines without ever seeing this dialog box.
>
> At first I thought it would be a simple bug like trying to access a file
> like "c:\somefile.dat" on a machine that doesn't have a C: drive. However
> I
> made a simple test doing exactly this, and it ran fine.
>
> I can't debug on the client's machine, so I need to guess what's wrong in
> my
> code.
>
> Any idea? Under what circumstances will the above error message get
> displayed?
>
> Thanks,
> - Pierre
>
>
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