A Tough No Disk..Please insert a disk into drive \device\Harddisk3\DR3

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I truncated the error message to fit the Title box. It really reads:

"GoogleEarth.exe - No Disk X There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \device\Harddisk3\DR3"

This particular error message is very hard to close. Sometimes I get to GoogleEarth, sometimes not.

I understand that with 0 being the boot drive, DR3 is the one that shows as "2" in Disk Management, so it is a "data disk." Could there be an error in the information stored for GoogleEarth Pro that misdirects the OS to look on the wrong disk for the *.exe file?

I was having "No Disk" problems with other programs which I seem to temporarily solved.

Having read about USB devices, I suspected my Kingston FCR-HS3 that I use to read SD cards from my camera. I shut down, unplugged the device, rebooted and found Disk Management simplified. I plugged it in and refreshed and found the 4 card reader possibilities again listed.

SeaMonkey worked fine for the first time in months. When I tried GoogleEarth with nothing else running I could do nothing save a hard reset to regain control of my computer.

Should I uninstall Google Earth and reinstall it and see if that fixes the problem? It is probably a newer version by now anyway. Is there anything I need to do to make sure that a potentially misplaced pointer has been uninstalled? Years ago I did search the Registry, but I did so with 'fear and trepidation.'

Thanks,
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If you wish to uninstall Google Earth, use Revo Uninstaller!
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Then reinstall it!

 

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The Problem is More Complex

This morning when I booted my PC I encountered a
No Disk...
that referred to
kdbsynch.exe


A few minutes later I hit another that referred to
jp2launcher.exe


In each case it was

Device\Harddisk3\DR3


that was not found.


It may be my Kingston USB multicard reader that it the culprit.



Is it logical to unplug it and only connect it when I want to read a SDCard from my camera? Once I've safely ejected the card, then I should unplug the card reader? It seems a clunky solution, but if it frees me from this problem, sobeit.


thanks,
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