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OK,
It's an HDD, which points away from a few problems, it's IDE, which makes life
easier, Windows doesn't see any hardware problems, and it can see the drive.
That you cannot change the drive letter for the drive in Device manager is quite
normal, In My Experience, this setting can only be changed for CD-ROM drives,
for HDD's the letter is assigned by the BIOS, not Windows.
Can you see the drive from DOS? Do a Start -> Shutdown -> Restart in MS-DOS
Mode, and then try and access the D: Drive. (Don't open a DOS Window - you have
to go right out of Windows). If you can see your files from DOS, then I would
strongly suggest that you copy them to a safe place on another HDD as soon as
possible.
Since the BIOS can see the drive OK, and apparantly so can the Windows Hardware
manager, I'd say that probably rules out a cable problem, as well as power. Has
the BIOS POST been taking longer than usual since your drive disappeared?
Again, if you could let the list know the answers to these two questions, we can
help further. Sorry I can't give a definate answer for you yet, sometimes PC
hardware troubleshooting takes the form of several steps like this.
Regards,
Mike Insch - IT Engineer, CCA, DipHE
SFS Creative Business Solutions Ltd - http://www.sfs-creative.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1224 624 014 Fax: +44 (0) 1224 218 318
1. It's a hard disk
2. IDE
3. no compression
4. no
5. yes but where you put the drive letter in is blank and won't accept key
board input
6. yes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Insch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of The_Screwdriver_List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 12:44 PM
Subject: From The Screwdriver List: Re: List Trivia Question -- Week of
2/04/01
> Grab your Phillips, it's...
> The Latest from The Screwdriver List!
>
>
> To help further, I have a couple of questions..
> 1. Is your D drive A hard Disk, or a CD-ROM Drive?
> 2. Is the drive SCSI or IDE?
> 3. If it's a Hard Disk, has it had Disk Compression running on it?
> 4. If you go into Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System
> and click on the 'Device Manager' Tab, are there any items
> highlighted
> with a yellow '?' or a red 'X'?
> 5. Also in Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System on the
> 'Device Manager' tab, if you expand 'Disk Drives', Do you see one
> 'GENERIC IDE DISK DRIVE TYPE 47' for each IDE drive in your Machine,
> or a manufacturer/make/model for each SCSI one.
> 6. Do you have any valuable data on the drive?
>
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