'No Disk' Error

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Cigarzan

I've seen a number of posts on this, but none seems to quite fit my problem.
I have gotten the "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into
drive \device\harddisk0\DR0" error when installing three programs that I've
downloaded (i.e., not from a CD or other disk) as follows:

Mail Washer 4.8 - Program works fine, but now get the above error relative
to this program on each boot.

Adobe Acrobat 6.0 - got the error during install and managed to get the
install completed anyway. No errors since.

Canon MultiPass F30 Driver - can't get past the error to complete the
install.

My hard disk is designated F:, and each of these programs seems to want to
do a default install to C:, which happens to be a zip disk.

Any thoughts on how to resolve this matter will be appreciated.

Thanks
 
I do have the cited line "ProgramFiles=F:\Program Files", but want to be
sure I don't screw up the registry. I searched for this string in the
registry (with all variants of spaces and no spaces between Program and
Files), and did not find it. What exactly am I looking for and what do I
need to change it to?

Thanks

Michal Kawecki said:
U¿ytkownik "Cigarzan said:
I've seen a number of posts on this, but none seems to quite fit my
problem. I have gotten the "There is no disk in the drive. Please
insert a disk into drive \device\harddisk0\DR0" error when installing
three programs that I've downloaded (i.e., not from a CD or other
disk) as follows:
[...]
My hard disk is designated F:, and each of these programs seems to
want to do a default install to C:, which happens to be a zip disk.
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Open cmd.exe and check with command SET if you have in your environment
this:

ProgramFiles=F:\Program Files

If so, there is a problem with these programs or it's setups, not with
your system. You can probably correct this in registry.

M.
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This is a correct path to your Program Files folder, don't change it.
This variable is set from
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\\ProgramFilesDir.

You have probably a problem with setup program from MailWasher, Acrobat,
etc. Some setup don't check "Program Files" system variable, but install
into hardlinked location c:\Program Files. You can clear it with
author's of these programs.

You can search in registry for ex. for all references to "c:\program
files\MailWasher" and change it to "f:\program files\MailWasher", then
make appriopriate changes in all .ini and .dat files in \MailWasher
folder. But this is only temporary solution.

M.

P.S. Sorry, my english is'nt so good as I like ;-)

U¿ytkownik "Cigarzan said:
I do have the cited line "ProgramFiles=F:\Program Files", but want to
be sure I don't screw up the registry. I searched for this string in
the registry (with all variants of spaces and no spaces between
Program and Files), and did not find it. What exactly am I looking
for and what do I need to change it to?

Thanks

Michal Kawecki said:
U¿ytkownik "Cigarzan said:
I've seen a number of posts on this, but none seems to quite fit my
problem. I have gotten the "There is no disk in the drive. Please
insert a disk into drive \device\harddisk0\DR0" error when
installing three programs that I've downloaded (i.e., not from a CD
or other disk) as follows:
[...]
My hard disk is designated F:, and each of these programs seems to
want to do a default install to C:, which happens to be a zip disk.
Click to expand...
Open cmd.exe and check with command SET if you have in your
environment this:

ProgramFiles=F:\Program Files

If so, there is a problem with these programs or it's setups, not
with your system. You can probably correct this in registry.

M.
Click to expand...
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from the wonderful person Cigarzan said:
I've seen a number of posts on this, but none seems to quite fit my problem.
I have gotten the "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into
drive \device\harddisk0\DR0" error when installing three programs that I've
downloaded (i.e., not from a CD or other disk) as follows:

Mail Washer 4.8 - Program works fine, but now get the above error relative
to this program on each boot.

Adobe Acrobat 6.0 - got the error during install and managed to get the
install completed anyway. No errors since.

Canon MultiPass F30 Driver - can't get past the error to complete the
install.

My hard disk is designated F:, and each of these programs seems to want to
do a default install to C:, which happens to be a zip disk.

Any thoughts on how to resolve this matter will be appreciated.
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Lots of (badly written) programs seem to think there 'must be' a C:
drive there someplace (with a disk in). If you haven't got one, how
about changing the ZIP drive letter to something else, creating a folder
called F:\C, and then assigning C: drive letter to this folder - either
using 'subst', or just assigning it as a shared network drive (but
you'll have to share it first). This worked for me (with Win2k),
although the errors there were not at boot time.
 
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