\Device\Harddisk3\DR3 Error

there is no Disk in the Drive. Please insert a disk into the drive \Device\Harddisk3\DR3.


this is a new Dell 560 PC straight out of the box except for xray viewing software downloaded from site

We installed a new PC and hooked it up to the network. X-ray viewing software was downloaded and installed. When we launch the application we get this error window.

This software also has the capabilities to burn a patients x-ray to CD. When the CD is opened on another PC this error will sometimes follow. I have tried it on other W7 Pro units and about half will flash the same error message.

We have been back to the software designers, they say it is a Windows issue.

I tried to diable speedboost, but do not have the tab available.
one post said to put the DVD burner on it own power cable from the PSU--it was already.

Any help is appreciated

Disk 0 is the hard drive 1TB 3 patitions (OEM partition, recovery, and C: at 913.66GB)

Disk 1, 2, 3, and 4 (E, F, G, H) all state Removable no Media

This sytem only has the one hardrive and DVD drive installed, one in Sata 0 and the other in Sata 3. i have tried different Sata ports with no help.

thanx so much

willus said:

[..... I just had an issue with \Device\Harddisk3\DR3 and I figured out it was actually the 4th disk in the Disk Management list, which was labeled "Disk 3" (Disk 0, Disk 1, Disk 2, Disk 3). There is also a program, dd, which will list the Windows block devices for you if you use "dd --list" at the command line.

This is more than a year old thread, that was left hanging by the OP who never returned.

Can you please elaborate how exactly you resolved the issue?

How does listing the devices with dd help resolve the issue, if it all it did??

jumanji said:

willus said:

[..... I just had an issue with \Device\Harddisk3\DR3 and I figured out it was actually the 4th disk in the Disk Management list, which was labeled "Disk 3" (Disk 0, Disk 1, Disk 2, Disk 3). There is also a program, dd, which will list the Windows block devices for you if you use "dd --list" at the command line.

This is more than a year old thread, that was left hanging by the OP who never returned.

Can you please elaborate how exactly you resolved the issue?

How does listing the devices with dd help resolve the issue, if it all it did??

Yes, I understand it is an old thread, but it did come up in a google search of "\Device\Harddisk3\DR3", which I did in order to try and figure out which device / drive letter it was. In my case, this device turned out to be a flash card reader that was empty, but the drive letter that was assigned to that that drive (which I was trying to figure out since Windows wouldn't directly tell me(!)) was in my command path, so I was getting the same error as at the top of this thread every time I typed in a command ("There is no disk in the drive..."). I resolved my particular problem (not the same problem as in this thread) by changing the drive letter of that device in the Disk Management software (since I was not able to change my path). My intent here wasn't so much to answer the exact problem in this thread but instead to correct some misinformation for the next person who does the same search.

Since Windows uses "\Device\Harddisk#\DR#" in its event logs for disk errors (and for other disk diagnostics, as evidenced by this thread) and most people don't know what that means or what disk it refers to (it is one of the poorer diagnostic messages in Windows, IMHO), I wanted to point people to "dd --list" as a useful tool for figuring it out.

Was it an external USB Flash card reader?

jumanji said:

Was it an external USB Flash card reader?

Yes--built into my Dell monitor.

I am going to bombard you.:)

But that for tomorrow morning.