Windows - Drive Not Ready - isFile()

When checking to see if a file [using isFile() ] exists on a drive I get this dialog error message in Windows XP:
Windows - Drive Not Ready
Exception Processing Message c00000a3Parameters 75b6bf7c 75b6bf7c 75b6bf7c
I get this message if there is no media in the drive such as if I make the check on an empty floppy drive.
Is there any way to check if their is a media in the floppy drive before deciding to check if there is a certain file on it with isFile()?
Trying to catch the error does not seem to work - the error seems to originate from somewhere in the OS rather than from java.
How do I get rid of this error message? I have upgraded to JDK 1.5 - the problem did not occur in JDK 1.2 so somehow that earlier version was able to avoid this problem.
This is part of the code:
String iniFileName = DEFAULTINIFILENAME;
File[] possibleRoots = getAllPossibleRoots(); // Mostly a call to File.listRoots() with some fixes
File possibleIniFile = null;
Vector allFoundIniFiles = new Vector();
for (int possibleLocationNo = 0 ; possibleLocationNo < possibleRoots.length ; possibleLocationNo++) {
possibleIniFile = new File(possibleRoots[possibleLocationNo], File.separator + iniFileName); if (possibleIniFile.isFile()) {
allFoundIniFiles.add(possibleIniFile);
} // if
} // for
Edited by: Java-is-music on Sep 28, 2008 9:39 AM
Edited by: Java-is-music on Sep 28, 2008 9:40 AM

This should run on its own - just compile it and run it on Windows XP - using jdk 1.5 for instance. I checked on jdk 1.4 and it also gave the error.
The error is that this dialog window appears:
Windows - Drive Not Ready
Exception Processing Message c00000a3Parameters 75b6bf7c 75b6bf7c 75b6bf7c
// package testappl.sscce;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.Vector;
public class DriveNotReadyErrorMessage {
    private static String DEFAULTINIFILENAME = "myconfig.ini";
    public DriveNotReadyErrorMessage() {
        File[] possibleIniFiles = getAllAvailableDefaultIniFiles();
    /**Looks in all possible root locations and returns the found ini files.
    private File[] getAllAvailableDefaultIniFiles() {
        File returnIniFiles[] = null;
        String iniFileName = DEFAULTINIFILENAME;
        File[] possibleRoots;
        possibleRoots = File.listRoots();
        /* Nota bene. The error message due to an empty floppy drive
         * can be avoided by calling:
         * FileSystemView fsv = FileSystemView.getFileSystemView();
         * and then checking if:
         * ((fsv.isFloppyDrive(possibleRoots[a root no])) == false) { }
         * but this just avoids the error message if the floppy is empty - not if other drives have no media.
        File possibleIniFile = null;
        Vector allFoundIniFiles = new Vector();
        for (int possibleLocationNo = 0;
             possibleLocationNo < possibleRoots.length; possibleLocationNo++) {
            possibleIniFile =
                    new File(possibleRoots[possibleLocationNo], File.separator +
                             iniFileName); // File.separator + added to make it work on linux
            System.out.println("Now checking for possible configuration file: " +
                               possibleIniFile.toString()); // Line added for debugging purposes only. Error appears here from what I can see
            if (possibleIniFile.isFile()) {
                allFoundIniFiles.add(possibleIniFile);
            } // if
        } // for
        returnIniFiles = new File[allFoundIniFiles.size()];
        File foundIniFile;
        for (int foundFileNo = 0; foundFileNo < allFoundIniFiles.size();
             foundFileNo++) {
            foundIniFile = (File)allFoundIniFiles.get(foundFileNo);
            returnIniFiles[foundFileNo] = foundIniFile;
        } // for
        return returnIniFiles;
    } // getAllAvailableDefaultIniFiles
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        DriveNotReadyErrorMessage driveNotReadyErrorMessage =
            new DriveNotReadyErrorMessage();
}Edited by: Java-is-music on Sep 29, 2008 1:08 PM

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