Explorer.exe No Disk problem

Does anyone else get this?

Basically I'll boot up my machine (alienware m17rx3) and then open ‘My Computer’. Then I’ll insert a USB stick or a dvd. Everything happens normally. However with ‘My Computer’ still open I will right click the USB stick and click eject & a message will always pop up. Most commonly ‘Explorer.exe – No disk’ ‘There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive\Device\Harddisk1\DR1’. The box gives options to cancel, continue & re-try. If I click cancel the box will re-appear. Basically I have to click through it about 5 or 6 times before it eventually disappears. After that all is fine and dandy.

If I eject using the icon in the system tray I don't get the same problem. Likewise with a DVD, if I use the button on the top right of the laptop to eject the dvd the error message doesn't happen. It's only when ejecting using right click, eject on the drive within 'my computer'. I’ll get same message but instead of please insert to device\harddisk\DR1 it will say ‘Please insert a disk into drive D:’.

It’s also odd because it only does it once. Subsequent ejections of a dvd or USB stick are then fine. Until the next boot anyway. I have managed to stop / suppress the error by changing the errormode in the registry to 2. However it’s not a real fix. As far as I can see there are no side effects, everything works absolutely fine but it does concern me. I have trawled google til I’m blue in the face with no joy. The common issue being that the USB stick has been assigned the C: letter and to change it in disk management but that doesn’t apply to me as it always gets assigned as E: whilst my DVD drive is D: I did try changing the drive letter for the sake of it but it didn’t help. Also tried disabling all start up items & clean booting with only MS services running – again no joy. Finally tried logging in with a new user profile and again no help. Other things I did was clear recent documents so nothing points towards either the optical or USB drives.

Is it possibly some kind of other issue? It’s getting kind of irritating. I am inclined to think Windows updates have intro’d this bug. I am fully upto date. But I can’t confirm when this started happening as I don’t normally eject this way. But now I have noticed the problem it is something I am keen to fix.

Thanks
Wayne

 

How to fix explorer.exe - No Disk error - Microsoft Answers

I used a lot of usb and flash drives over the years and simply just remove them when not in use. Never used the eject feature. No issues with me thus far

 

Thanks for the response.

Unfortunately I have seen that one & it doesn't work for me. I get the same error when ejecting a dvd too under 'my computer'. I am thinking it's a bug intro'd by Windows updates / hotfixes perhaps. Or it could be some kind of securom/ DRM issue introduced by a game at some point. Trying to narrow down is virtually impossible as I have quite a few installed!