Was creating a party and after creating a character I got the notification in Pool of Radiance at the bottom to " Put save disk in C: "

I cannot do that and the game wouldn't let me do anything else, so I force closed the game.

Now when I start the game and try to make characters or add characters to the party I always get the " Put save disk in C: " and I practically cannot play the game at all.

From memory this had something to do with attempting to access the save screen from the main menu. From what I remember, the workaround is to start a new party, enter the game, enter camp and then save the game.

If you can't even start a new party any more, maybe try reinstalling the game first?

I had something very similar but I was not using the Galaxy interface, was running the game straight from DOSBox. I had to edit the POOL.CFG in the POOLRAD directory to take into account what I had chosen to be DOSBox's mounted C Drive.

Here is pertinent portion of DOSBox Preferences file:

mount c ~/dosgames/ssi/poolrad
C:
cycles= fixed 3000
pcspeaker=false
start.exe

And the POOL.CFG:

E
P
C:\
C:\SAVE\
F

# In my version of the game the character data files were in the SAVE folder, inside the POOLRAD folder.
# I'm a Mac guy, so you might have to lean your slashes the other way, in the DOSBox preferences portion.

Having problems with this too. I am using the PC version and there is no save folder within the POOLRAD folder. Any advice on what I should do here?

After GOG implemented cloud saving, they moved the saves for a lot of DOS games into a seperate folder called cloud_saves. For the Gold Box games this also messes with the Gold Box Companion, but you can manage this via editing the "dosbox_por_single.conf" file.

I know this is an old post, but the game was on sale not to long ago, so maybe this will help someone else that is having an issue. I own both the original CD version and the GOG version. It seems sometimes the POOL.CFG file gets messed up. Here is a DosBox configuration that will work for the CD version.

For install of Pool of Radiance in the root of C:\WINWORX\POOLRAD
For intall of Pool of Radiance Saves in the root of C:\SAVE\POOLRAD

Set POOL.CFG to:
E
P
C:\
A:\
F

Go into DosBox:
mount c c:\WINWORX\POOLRAD
mount a c:\SAVE\POOLRAD
c:
start

For the GOG version I also had an issue, my saves were just being dumped into the POOLRAD directory. The game played fine, but cloud sync would not work, as they need to be in the "cloud_saves" directory. I had to change the POOL.CFG file to make them sync. C:\Games\Pool of Radiance\POOLRAD\POOL.CFG, for my install, yours maybe different. I changed it to this:

E
P
C:\POOLRAD\
C:\
F

Now it cloud sync's fine.

I just purchased GOG version today. After much struggling, I eventually got the game working with the default directories so that GBC runs properly. I can create characters & load save games in the game, finally.

Here is my information for my setup in hopes that it can help others:

I edited the "dosbox_por_single.conf" file like this:
---------------------
[ipx]
ipx=false

[autoexec]
@echo off
cls
mount c ".."
mount a "..\cloud_saves\POOLRAD\"
c:
cd POOLRAD
start
exit
---------------------

And my "POOL.CFG" file looks like this:
---------------------
E
T
C:\POOLRAD\
A:\
N
---------------------

I found that leaving the default Cloud_Save folder alone was the key to getting GBC to run fully. And DoxBox doesn't like having two folders mounted to the same drive, even in that Overlay mode, so I mounted the Cloud_Save folder to drive letter A:

The install folders for both apps, POR & GBC, are default. I only changed those 2 files to point to those folders and make sure that the SAVE folder is always mounted to a separate drive letter than the one the game is on. I hope this helps.

EDIT: I think I even had to create the POOLRAD folder inside of the Cloud_Save folder then move all the save stuff into there in order for GBC to work properly. Though after mounting the way I seen others do it, it all worked.