Re: Bogus XP-Pro Msg Launching Sims Games

In our last episode Harry was saying . . .

> I get the following message (referring to my harddisk)
> right after launching any of the Sims games, as well as
> ArcSoft's Greeting Card Creator application:
>
> "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into
> drive \Device\harddisk\Dr1"
>
> I do not have a removeable harddisk -- all I have is the
> standard drive-C harddisk. The only way out is to power-
> off the system, since clicking on either the "retry"
> or "cancel" buttons just re-displays the same msg.
>
> Just curious if anyone else has run into this situation.
> I've tried re-installing each application several times,
> making sure that no other application is running while
> doing the install (per the sw vendors), but same result.
>
> Harry

This has happened to me on CFS3. It is a nuisance, but I found that by
clicking OK 3 or so times, the game would load and run properly.