By clicking through the error message several time the installer started
and now I'm a happy camper as Ubuntu 11.04 is installed and running.  I
updated to 11.10 and found that it is not user friendly for me.  I
un-installed the 11.10 version and re-installed 11.04 which is clear, clean
and works very nice.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 12:55 AM, David Boden <email address hidden>wrote:

> Same "No disk in drive" issue for by Dell Studio XPS desktop. Windows 7
> 64-bit. Again, it has a built in memory stick / SDCARD reader.
>
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> Title:
>  wubi installer's pyrun.exe says "no disk"
>
> Status in Wubi, Windows Ubuntu Installer:
>  New
> Status in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  The issue i'm having is with the initial installation.
>
>  I run Windows XP Home Edition on an HP Pavilion a656x with an added
>  video card and an added stick of memory. It has two optical drives,
>  drive E (a DVD/CD drive) and drive F (a CD drive).
>
>  Here is what happens...
>
>  1. I boot into Windows XP
>  2. I insert the Ubuntu 9.04 CD into drive E
>  3. I get a pop-up message window (from pyrun.exe) telling me that there
> is no disk in drive F
>  4. My options are Cancel, Try Again, and Continue and the "X" to close
> the little window
>  5. no matter what i click, the error message just pops back up.
>
>  if I put the CD in the Drive F, then everything happens exactly the
>  same except that in step 3, the message informs me there is no disk in
>  drive E.
>
>  So, whichever of my two drives i insert the CD into, the installer
>  complains that i don't have a disk in the OTHER drive.
>
>  In Ubuntu 8.10 (which I no longer have installed on my system), after
>  I inserted the CD, I would simply get a pop-up that presented 3
>  installation options (and I want to choose the 2nd one: install inside
>  windows)....in Ubuntu 9.04, if i keep clicking the various buttons
>  randomly like 50 times (Cancel, Try Again, Continue, and the little
>  close "X")...I will eventually get the installation options.
>
>  ---------------------------------
>
>  UPDATE:
>  I am the author of this bug report, which I reported in april 2009. It is
> now January 2010, and I have decided to sum up the issue and the work
> around so people won't read the first 5 or 6 posts and misunderstand the
> issue.  I am still getting email notifications; so, apparently this is
> still a problem.
>
>  APPARENT CAUSE:
>  This issue appears to be due to the wubi installer being ported to python
> from its original language; therefore, if i remember correctly, this
> problem will only be seen on wubi 9.04 and later. Wubi (and possibly python
> itself) has problems dealing elegantly with empty data storage devices in
> certain instances. Wubi scans all drives on your system a certain number of
> times during the installation process. Every time it scans through the
> drives and encounters one it does not know how to deal with, it produces
> this error. If you click through it, wubi moves on to the next drive.
>
>  WHAT TO EXPECT:
>  It feels like an infinite loop or like windows must be rebooted, but, it
> is nothing so serious. Wubi scans the through all drives several times
> during the installation process and produces this error message any time it
> encounters a drive it doesn't understand. If you click the error message,
> wubi simply scans the next drive. If you keep clicking through the error
> message, wubi will eventually have scanned all the drives and move on.
>
>  For example, my computer had a card reader with 4 slots. Each slot was
>  considered a drive and each slot produced an error. Wubi scanned my
>  drives 3 times during the installation, so I had to click through the
>  error message a total of 12 times.
>
>  POSSIBLE PROBLEM DEVICES:
>  - card readers (usually each slot will produce the error)
>  - empty CD or DVD drives (not all people experience issues with
> these...my CD and DVD drive did not produce any errors)
>  - virtual drives
>  - drives assigned non-ascii drive letter
>
>  MORE ABOUT DEVICES:
>  - built-in card readers appear to be the most commonly reported problem
> device
>  - on the ubuntu forums, I have read that someone had this issue due to an
> attached cell phone
>  - some printers, keyboards, or monitors can have a built-in card
> reader...don't forget to check that
>
>  WORKAROUND (TEMPORARY SOLUTION):
>  1. Eject the problem devices, OR...
>  2. Click through the error messages -- it is not an infinite loop, you
> will get one error message per problem device each time wubi scans the
> drives.
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