Second hard drive isn't showing up!
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Name: John
Date: January 12, 2003 at 09:45:31 Pacific
Subject: Second hard drive isn't showing up!OS: Windows MeCPU/Ram: Intel Pentium4 1.7ghz/512 |
Comment: For some reason today, my second hard drive isn't showing up in My Computer/explorer. My C drive (40GB) only shows up. The D drive (80GB), which I was using up til yesterday, comes up missing whenever I double-click on any short cuts to programs that I had on that drive. I recently installed visual c++ the other day, could that possibly be the problem? I checked some of the other posts in the forums but didn't find what I was looking for.
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Response Number 1
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Name: wawadave
Date: January 12, 2003 at 10:13:15 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)hello
with m.e boot disk in drive reboot,at the a:fdisk click enter
is your seconed hard drive showing up in list?
if not remove floppy reboot to bios clicking delete key on splash screen or f1 or f2 or f3 or f5 depending on make of computer
make sure all ide devices are set to auto. if every thing was ok in the above reboot to safe mode
and goto device manager remove ghost drives allso check for errors.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Bill H H
Date: January 12, 2003 at 10:43:58 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)If wawadave's fix doesn't work for you, do a System Restore from a point before you installed C++. If that doesn't work, try scanreg /restore. Bill.
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Response Number 3
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Name: John
Date: January 13, 2003 at 17:23:18 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hey! Thanks for the replies :)
What exactly do I have to do though to remove "ghost drives" in device manager in safe mode? + I've never had to use system restore before, would this uninstall visual c++ from my system?
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Response Number 4
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Name: jimbob
Date: January 14, 2003 at 07:00:57 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Restore will 'loose' the programs after that restore point was set.. In divice manager right click on any hardware that shouldn't be there..ghost drives... and choose remove!! I would also check to see the connections in your box to the drive arn't loose or making a bad contact. Update your drivers to your IDE in device manager while you are in there . And if still no joy you may have to update bios... but I would leave that and do if all else fails... JIM
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