PremiereCS3 won't start when firewire drive is removed

I've had to remove a Lacie firewire drive to reformat it on another system but now Premiere will only flash the loading screen and then dump out (no error messages, just shuts down) when I try to start it. Is there a way to start up Premiere to get some work done while this drive reformats?
BTW this drive was not used to store any media.
Thanks in advance.

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