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Hi - I have recently installed xampplite on a flash drive, to transport between work and home, and everything was running fine for about 3 days now until this morning when I now get this message. Is there anyway I can salvage from this or am I tanked?

I now receive a "httpd.exe - no disk" error:

"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk5\DR5"

Can anyone explain this to me and let me know how to proceed?

Thanks a lot if you can.

Are you having problems accessing your USB device or does this happen when you try to start Apache via the control panel?

You did not run the setup_xampp.bat did you?

I get the same error. It happens when I try to start Apache and MySql. I don't have this problem when I use it at school. Only my home computer.

OK, I ran the setup file and I no longer get that error, but now I can't keep Apache running. MySql does though.

Are you trying to run Apache as a service?

Windows services do not like 'removable media'.

Did you copy on the Control Panel (it works on all Windows versions and improves diagnostics)

What is in the Apache error log ?

Take a look at this topic and the Windows error messages -
viewtopic.php?p=199419

Your USB drive may be powering down.

Hi - I have recently installed xampplite on a flash drive, to transport between work and home, and everything was running fine for about 3 days now until this morning when I now get this message. Is there anyway I can salvage from this or am I tanked?

I now receive a "httpd.exe - no disk" error:

"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk5\DR5"

Can anyone explain this to me and let me know how to proceed?

Thanks a lot if you can.

I know this is a old thread but I had a similar problem (mine was Harddisk3\DR3) but I have found a fix (I think) .

Looking at the error log I found that when it run on my laptop there was a reference to "'i:\\xampp\\apache\\bin\\httpd.exe". But on my PC it would not load.

When I looked at My Computer the usb was set as a different letter, and there was a empty drive assigned to letter i (this was a memory card adapter). after changing the drive letters around so that my xampp usb drive was set to drive i it started up without any problems.

Although this solved this for me this time I wonder if there is anyway to change the required drive letter. I don't want this error on a pc where I can not change the drive letters.

Phoenix830 wrote:I wonder if there is anyway to change the required drive letter. I don't want this error on a pc where I can not change the drive letters.

So you don't have used the portable version of xampp?

You could do a small change in your setup_xampp.bat file

• open your \xampp\setup_xampp.bat file in your editor
• search for the following line
  

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  %PHP_BIN% -n -d output_buffering=0 %CONFIG_PHP%

• change it to
  

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  %PHP_BIN% -n -d output_buffering=0 %CONFIG_PHP% usb

• save the file

If you then execute the file all important paths should be corrected with paths without drive letters.