NOTE:   Although more than Poser is involved here, it seems more likely that Poser might lead me to a solution than the other programs.  Hence, I've posted it in this forum.  If the administrator feels it should be posted elsewhere, by all means do so.

Some months ago, my two main computer drives (which were linked) totally crashed and had to be replaced.  I then reinstalled my CG programs; Bryce 6.1, Poser 6.0, and Vue Pro Studio 6.0.  The following things resulted:

Bryce:  Works as usual, except that the Sky preset menu will not recognize any preset files.

Vue:  Appears to work but does it so slowly that it takes about 20 minutes (sometimes more) from the time one clicks the mouse until the action is performed.  (So far it takes about an hour to get from initially calling up the program to the place where the File menu can be called up.  I haven't had the patience to see what happens after that, so I don't know if it can call up a scene or not.  Same with an Vue object.

Poser:  When I open the program it loads to a point, then gives the following error message:
"Drive not ready Exception
Processing Message c00000a3 Parameters 75b6bf7c 75b6bf7c"

I then have the option to cancel, try again, or continue.  Pressing any one of then just brings up the above error message in an endless loop.  I have to use my Windows Task Manager to close the program.

The other weird thing is that when I try to reinstall either Poser or Vue from the original program disk, the computer refuses to read it.

I have ruled out viruses and worms.  My computer is clean.  

My only suspicion as to a cause is that my Windows XP home program has installed a new security update to the Windows Defender program.  I did get one pop up message saying Defender had determined that Poser was a security risk and would not allow it to be accessed.  I went into the Defender menus and made the needed changes to make Poser a trusted program.  The funny thing was that menu for trusted programs and the menu for blocked programs both had windows that were supposed to show a list of each.  Both windows were blank and I could not access either menu to add or subtract any programs.  For example, in the Blocked menu, there was no listing of Poser, even though I had just received that message saying Defender had blocked it.  Needless to say, I still keep getting that Drive not ready exception message.

Can anybody give me a clue as what's going on and how to fix it? 

 

Jeremy