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unmounted hard drive???
Name: Ratzy Date: August 2, 2005 at 20:58:31 Pacific OS: WinXP CPU/Ram: Athlon 1400+/640MB
Comment:
I have two secondary storage drives that I can change in my removable drive rack. I just changed from my old 120 gig drive to my newer 160 gig drive and now in my computer it does not show the drives size or free space info. I've tried the other drive again and it still works so I suspect that something is wrong with my newer drive. Also, when I tried looking at this drive from the disk defragmenter, it says that the drive is an "unmounted volume". How does this happen? It worked fine yesterday? Disk defragmenter also shows the sizes and info of this drive so I know that my files are still on there...but how can I access them? Both drives are western digital caviar drives and both new within the last 2 years. How does a drive become "unmounted" and can it be remounted?
Name: bob819 Date: August 3, 2005 at 05:23:01 Pacific
Reply:
I should search the posts for drive size limits of XP. I suspect you only have SP1 which I believe can only see a max of 137Gb, I could be wrong but there have been lots of posts on this type of problem.
Bob Mitchell.
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Response Number 2
Name: bob819 Date: August 3, 2005 at 05:27:02 Pacific
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Sorry, belay that last pipe. I have just re-read your post & you seem to indicate the 160GB HAS worked previously, if that's true I can't think of a reason offhand unless the drive has gone walkies.
Bob Mitchell.
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Response Number 3
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato) Date: August 3, 2005 at 08:34:17 Pacific
Reply:
Maybe a stupid question, but are you trying to swap drives while the computer is on. Many removable drive trays come with software to do that, but they are flaky at best.
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