There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive F:.

[primey0]

There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive F:.

I bought The Witcher 3 from GoG. Every time I try and launch it via the .exe I get this error

There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive F:.

Why would it be asking for a disk if I bought it digitally? I can get around the error by clicking continue but I'd like to get it solved

 

[dawid0711]

I have the same problem. I have to close is twice to start the game. OMG.....

 

[Pierre990429]

this happened to me too : if by chance you got an external hard drive plugged in when you installed or patched the game, and removed it afterwards (even if the game is installed on another drive), the EXE will scan your system and check for the "missing" drive.

totally weird and stupid, but that might be the explanation. just restart the computer.

 

[primey0]

I've temporarily fixed it by installing it on another drive but I'd like to keep it on the other drive. The weird thing is this error doesn't appear when you launch it via gog galaxy

this happened to me too : if by chance you got an external hard drive plugged in when you installed or patched the game, and removed it afterwards (even if the game is installed on another drive), the EXE will scan your system and check for the "missing" drive.

totally weird and stupid, but that might be the explanation. just restart the computer.

Restarting doesn't fix it.

 

[Pierre990429]

very curious. I dunno what you could do then.
did you check the registry to see if the game's path is correct ? (it's also where the patches look to upgrade the game)

 

[Monzetsu]

Today I got these error-message, too. Play with patch 1.08 on PC. Please help, because this is very annoying for me. Today in the moring I could play without any problems till high noon. But now at 23:00 (UTC/GMT +2/CEST) I get this error-message.

PS So I think it is a controller-software-error of the PC-OS. Because I have deleted a software and installed it again from a dvd and after rebooting the system, there wasn't this error-message with starting "The Witcher III - Wild hunt" more.

 

[derelict.765]

I am getting this error as well... I have GoG version, installed V1.10, then patched to 1.22. I get two iterations of:
"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk3\DR3"
I press enter twice on these messages, and then the game proceeds just fine...
Rebooting my machine does not solve the problem.
Does *anyone* at CD Projekt Red have any idea what's going on here?? I've looked around on the web, and found *many* reports of this issue, but no solutions so far...

 

[SigilFey]

If this just started, then it's likely down to something on GOG / Galaxy. There have been no updates to the game, as far as I know, but it's possible that a GOG update could have introduced it. Try disabling overlay features and running the game offline to see if it prevents the error.

 

[derelict.765]

Well, I'm not using Galaxy, I download all the installers, then back them up on our network drive for future use.

However, after reading another post on this topic, elsewhere on this forum, I found the solution!!!
The program is looking at *all* available disk drives, and for some reason is displaying error dialogs for disks that have no media in them - as is common for DVD/CD and FLASH drives... it's completely meaningless...

In my case, I put a blank SD card in my FLASH reader, and both of these messages disappeared !! duh...

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Later note:
I just rebooted my machine again, removed the SD card before rebooting, and now the game runs fine without giving those error dialogs. So I don't know *what* is going on...

Later later note:
Well, spoke too soon. After reboot, it loaded *once* without these errors, but next load they came back.
Back to the SD card!

 

[SigilFey]

It's likely a Windows config issue. Were there any Windows updates recently?

You should not have to plug unrelated peripherals in to make Windows detect the correct installation path. However, given as the fix is probably going to be far more complex than the workaround, it might be better just to leave the card in.

Can everyone let me know if this works across-the-board? If so, I'll bring it up internally.

 

[bman001001]

It's likely a Windows config issue. Were there any Windows updates recently?

You should not have to plug unrelated peripherals in to make Windows detect the correct installation path. However, given as the fix is probably going to be far more complex than the workaround, it might be better just to leave the card in.

Can everyone let me know if this works across-the-board? If so, I'll bring it up internally.

sort of an easy fix espicially if you don't use the card reader slots on the PC is to disable them in device manager. (and I mean the intergrated ones not ones powered by usb)

edit no issues here now that I checked