Where is this device coming from ...???
01 March 2003, 09:32 AM
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Hi,
My PC suffers from an annoying error message sometimes. Yesterday when I found an avi file in the system files (clock.avi - REALLY interesting ..... ) I went to play it and up popped the message:
'There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk2\DR4'. And I got the cancel/try again/continue choices. This pops up from time to time and I don't know why.
No files on the system that relate to it. Nowt in the registry. I installed the OS from scratch (WIN2K + SP2) myself onto a newly formatted disk (it was a while ago and at the time it was on a network).
But where the hell does it come from and why does it pop uo in circumstances like above?????
Cheers
Dave
My PC suffers from an annoying error message sometimes. Yesterday when I found an avi file in the system files (clock.avi - REALLY interesting ..... ) I went to play it and up popped the message:
'There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk2\DR4'. And I got the cancel/try again/continue choices. This pops up from time to time and I don't know why.
No files on the system that relate to it. Nowt in the registry. I installed the OS from scratch (WIN2K + SP2) myself onto a newly formatted disk (it was a while ago and at the time it was on a network).
But where the hell does it come from and why does it pop uo in circumstances like above?????
Cheers
Dave
01 March 2003, 02:30 PM
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Not 100% sure, but I think "\DR4" rings a bell from when I borrowed a digital camera from work.
The digital camera, when plugged into the PC appeared as a removable drive and I think that was listed with "\DR4" as the drive/device name. Camera was an Olympus I think (might have been Fuji), was a long time ago.
I'm guessing that at some point you had a digi camera attached to the PC and had opened a movie stored on the camera from within "Media Player". Now, everytime you open up Media Player it is checking the files still exist becuase you added them to a playlist ?
If any of this makes any sense I would check the Playlists for anything that isn't actually stored on your PC.
Cheers
Ian
The digital camera, when plugged into the PC appeared as a removable drive and I think that was listed with "\DR4" as the drive/device name. Camera was an Olympus I think (might have been Fuji), was a long time ago.
I'm guessing that at some point you had a digi camera attached to the PC and had opened a movie stored on the camera from within "Media Player". Now, everytime you open up Media Player it is checking the files still exist becuase you added them to a playlist ?
If any of this makes any sense I would check the Playlists for anything that isn't actually stored on your PC.
Cheers
Ian
02 March 2003, 07:00 PM
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Ta Ian.
But that doesn't seem to be it ..... It doesn't always happen when playing media files. Though as it only happens occasionally I can't remember when else at the moment ... BUT where the hell on the system is that device stored/referred to/wotever. I've looked everywhere and can't find anything ...
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Dave
02 March 2003, 09:25 PM
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the error message about the drive not being ready kept coming up on a machine I had with a failing hard disc drive..
it would come up randomly and for example when i went to run a file on the drive in question..
might be different in your case though.
it would come up randomly and for example when i went to run a file on the drive in question..
might be different in your case though.
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