"There Is No Disk in the Drive. Please Insert a Disk into Drive \Device\harddisk\Dr6" Error

[JamesKB]

OS: WinXP Home SP3

I've just started to get this error message randomly (sometimes when opening
an application or opening Windows Explorer, etc...:

"There Is No Disk in the Drive. Please Insert a Disk into Drive
\Device\harddisk\Dr6"

Any ideas?

Thanks for your time.

 

[pcs365.10]

Please insert a disk into drive.

Hi JamesKB,

Well I suggest you to try this.

Start | Run: msconfig | Startup tab.

Look for an item that relates to gttask.exe and uncheck it.

Regards
Chris


Please reply at your convenience.

 

[Jose]

OS: WinXP Home SP3

I've just started to get this error message randomly (sometimes when opening
an application or opening Windows Explorer, etc...:

"There Is No Disk in the Drive. Please Insert a Disk into Drive
\Device\harddisk\Dr6"

Any ideas?

Thanks for your time.

Googling that message finds these threads - do these apply to you?

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.html?threadID=5979

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-422494.php

 

[Uwe Sieber]

OS: WinXP Home SP3

I've just started to get this error message randomly (sometimes when
opening an application or opening Windows Explorer, etc...:

"There Is No Disk in the Drive. Please Insert a Disk into Drive
\Device\harddisk\Dr6"

Any ideas?

\Device\harddisk\Dr6 is a truncated kernel name
(also called "DOS device name") of a disk device.
My tool ListUsbDrives shows it, so you can at
least identify which drive is causing this:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/listusbdrives.zip

To discover why this drive is accessed at all
is difficult.

If you don't need the drive then you can
deactivate it in the device manager.


Uwe

 

[Twayne]

In

OS: WinXP Home SP3

I've just started to get this error message randomly
(sometimes when opening an application or opening Windows
Explorer, etc...:
"There Is No Disk in the Drive. Please Insert a Disk into
Drive \Device\harddisk\Dr6"

Any ideas?

Thanks for your time.

Very little info there, so here's the best I can do:
Run chkdsk on the drive. Note: If the drive if failing, a chkdsk could
render this disk unusable.

Download & run the mfr's test program on the drive.

It's probably beginning to have bad blocks that chkdsk may be able to mark
out. But if more happen, the disk is going to be trash very soon.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[MowGreen]

OS: WinXP Home SP3

I've just started to get this error message randomly (sometimes when
opening an application or opening Windows Explorer, etc...:

"There Is No Disk in the Drive. Please Insert a Disk into Drive
\Device\harddisk\Dr6"

Any ideas?

Thanks for your time.

The message is probably being caused by a removable device -

"There Is No Disk in the Drive. Please Insert a Disk into Drive
\Device\harddisk\Dr1" Error Message When You Start Your Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330137


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