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bamorris
03-14-2005, 09:55 PM
I received my FZ15 for Christmas and love it, and I have recently experimented with movie mode. When I record a movie and play back on the camera everything is fine. When I copy the movie to my PC and begin to open the file I receive the following error. "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk1\DR3." I can click a cancel, try again, or continue button, but have to click through 20-30 of these error messages before the movie will open and play. Once the movie is loaded it plays fine on the PC. I just updated my Quicktime software to the latest version to see if that was the problem, but it did not help.

Any suggestions? Am I doing something wrong when I transfer the file to PC? I have tried drag and drop from Windows Explorer, I've tried using the SD viewer for DMC to copy to PC and I get the same error.
Curious George
03-16-2005, 02:54 PM
FWIW, I have the same problem, no solution yet....
genece
03-16-2005, 03:37 PM
It is hard to understand why you would get a message like that.
Do you have a file like this in your My Document folder or whereever you load the photos.
bamorris
03-21-2005, 05:34 PM
I do have a file just as you describe (.mov) with an accompanying .jpg file of the first frame of the movie. I shot some additional movie clips to see if the original MOV file I created was corrupted, but I continue to have the same problem. I noticed that if I view the files with the Panasonic SD viewer for DMC program that the movie clips will play in the preview window without any problems. It is only when I try to play the clips using Quicktime that I experience the error messages.

P.S. Thanks Curios George for the reply. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one experiencing this problem.
bamorris
07-05-2005, 12:04 PM
I have a 12-in-1 USB 2.0 flash media card reader that I use to transfer my digital pictures from my camera to my PC. For some reason, when this is connected to the PC and drive letters are assigned to various card slots, the Quicktime software is scanning those empty drive slots for media files and causing the "no disk in drive" errors. As soon as I unplug the card reader and open Quicktime again - no problems whatsoever.