Sounds like it might be a previously reported problem, but I can't access the the archives at the moment. Here's an excerpt I saved on my machine from the thread "No Disk error". I had the same problem with the memory card slots on my "Windows 7 Home" PC.
>> > Here's what I tried that worked. > 1) Keep media in the drives. ... if I fill all the slots, the errors will disappear > entirely. > > 2) Disable each drive that causes a problem. I opened the Device > Manager in the control panel. The item "Disk drives" lists all the > drives on the machine including those for the memory cards. Disabling > a drive eliminates the error for that drive. If I disable every > memory card drive, all the pop-ups are eliminated. > > 3) Hack the registry. Go to the registry entry > "Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows" > The default value of of the DWORD "ErrorMode" is "0". Change > "ErrorMode" to "2". Pop-ups gone. The following link gives more > explanation > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/124873/disabling-system-hard-error-message-dialog-boxes > Hope this helps. On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 8:23 PM Fran_3 via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Thanks Michael but no joy. > > When I'm looking at the GC report and I click Export the "Save HTML to > file" window opens and shows the path to the correct folder on my PC... > > But I have to click "Continue" 21 times before the "No Disk" window will > go away and let me actually enter a name for the report and then click > Export. > C:\Users\UserMe\folder-x\folder-y\folder-z\gnuCash > > That folder exist and the report will ultimately save there fine... but > only after clicking Continue 21 times:-( > Thanks for any more ideas or suggestions. > Fran3 > > On Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 7:39:11 PM EST, Michael or Penny > Novack <stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On 11/6/2019 6:54 PM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: > > Running GC3.7 on Win7 Pro. Here is the issue > > > > When I click File > Export > Export Report > > I get a popup message... > > > > > > "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive > \Device\Harddisk9\DR-9" > > > This isn't QUITE a gnucash problem, you'd have it with any "save as" > type of operation. Which is why you are also having this problem trying > to save PDFs. > > When you export from gnucash you will be supplying a name and a > directory (aka "file folder"). In other words, a PATH. There will > already be SOME path currently there (maybe from the last time you did a > "save as" type of operation) but this is almost certainly not where you > want the export to put things. > > In other words, you will want to be supplying that path (choosing that > folder) > > The "error" message you saw was because although there was a path > specified, it is one not currently/no longer valid (say referring to a > mountable device that is not currently mounted). It is telling you that > you DON'T have a "\Device\Harddisk9\DR-9". You want to be specifying a > path that you DO have. > > You are on Windows7? Do you know where your Documents folder is? In > Documents create a subfolder with a name like "gnucash reports". See > what the full path to that is? Try specifying THAT path when you do the > File > Export > Report operation. While you are at this, you might as > well create a subfolder for those PDFs. > > Michael D Novack > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
