Message about disk drive not ready while booting
 

OS. Linux Mint 14 Nadia.
while booting I get following msg
The disk drive for /media/Windows is not ready yet or not present
-Continue to wait,or press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery.
I stared getting this message after I installed Oracle Virtual Box.
I had installed Ubuntu 12.04,Lubuntu 12.04,kbuntu 12.04 and windows XP on Virtual Box.
The problem started ( probably) when I had deleted Windos- XP folder from
/Home/Virtual Box VMS folder,insted of removing host Windos- XP from Oracle VM Virtual Box Manager.I had again installed Win XP.Virtual Box is runnig fine.
The folder /media contains a folder named Windows and geeta (user/administrator).
How to rectify this ?
With new installatin /media contains which subfolers?

Can you check your /etc/fstab and just remove the mount line for it? You should always remove it from within VirtualBox because of these other config files that get changed.

Thanks a lot.
However there is no file in /etc/fstab.
Now the qustion is how to restore this file and edit it?
I had visited linux forum for how to restore fstab.
and tried to run $ cat /etc/fstab interminal which has given following result in Terminal
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geeta@geeta-MS-7576 ~ $ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda4 during installation
UUID=4fadeae6-5cf9-40e5-83a8-7b461eafd176 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=0bc7876f-e55b-4ebd-884f-db5dccba510f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-hp_v165w_AA00000000005141-0:0-part2 /mnt/usb-hp_v165w_AA00000000005141-0:0-part2 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,noauto,x-gvfs-show 0 0
UUID=f7927995-b098-42be-ada0-987857f5177a /media/Windows ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2
geeta@geeta-MS-7576 ~ $ cat /etc/fstab.bak
cat: /etc/fstab.bak: No such file or directory
geeta@geeta-MS-7576 ~ $
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I am contining my homework (effots)for this.
Thanks once again.
Regards
Kishor

editing fstab file
 

Further to my earlier reply.
I could open (probably) the file in gedit.
I tried $ sudo gedit /etc/fstab
in Terminal.
geeta@geeta-MS-7576 ~ $ sudo gedit /etc/fstab
[sudo] password for geeta:

After that gedit was opened automatically.
Gedit shows following result
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda4 during installation
UUID=4fadeae6-5cf9-40e5-83a8-7b461eafd176 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=0bc7876f-e55b-4ebd-884f-db5dccba510f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-hp_v165w_AA00000000005141-0:0-part2 /mnt/usb-hp_v165w_AA00000000005141-0:0-part2 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,noauto,x-gvfs-show 0 0
UUID=f7927995-b098-42be-ada0-987857f5177a /media/Windows ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2Gedit ======================================================================
Please confirm whether this is fstb file,if yes please help me to edit this file.
I had forget to mention that there are two OS 1)linux Mint 14 Nadia and 2)Win- XP
Since Virtual Box is installed on linus and WIN-XP as guest ,I always boot linux which is a first choice.
Regards
Kishor
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after $ sudo gedit /etc/fstab
in Terminal, gedit was automatically opened
last two lines were deletedand problem is solved.

Just put a # in front of this line:

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after $ sudo gedit /etc/fstab
in Terminal, gedit was automatically opened
last two lines were deletedand problem is solved.

I had saved Fstab file (which was existing on(24/2/2013)an the existing one.So that I will have one ftsab file which works.
Thanks a lot.
Regards