I think the real issue is why is the application's process so slow to die on your PC. Mine exits within several seconds. I suggest you try using process explorer to see more details about the process than what task manager shows you. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/sysinternals/bb89665
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Cleaning up the path (in addition to uninstalling the 4 removable drives) seemed to fix the problem.
Thanks. I checked "email me when somebody replies" in my reply so I was notified of your reply. Disabling the four drives for my multi-card reader and setting HKEY_LOCAL\MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows\Errno to 2 didn't help. It didn't display the popup, it just crashed. I've reset Errno back to 0 and uninstalled the four drives. Supposedly the "DR" stands for "Device Removable" in the "Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk1\DR1" dialog.
Sorry for the delay answering, I'd assumed I was automatically subscribed to get a email notification if anybody replied. " Hmm... what is "\Device\HardDisk\DR1" is that the device name of your hard drive or a removeable device? " Neither. I have a single 1.8TB physical drive (C:) and a virtual drive M: created via TrueCrypt. Both are NTFS. I have a drive D (my CD/DVD player) and drives E, F, G, and H (multiple card reader for SD cards etc.) listed as remov
Twice (different games) I have gotten a popup error message "Legendary Heroes.exe - no disk" with "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into the drive \Device\HardDisk\DR1". Pressing the cancel, try again or continue buttons (I tried them all) causes a crash to the desktop. The first time this occurred when a air elemental sent me some message. The second time occurred while starting combat with some air shrills. In both cases I can load a saved game and resume though I