I tried what was written in the ownership of the drive article but i found out that i have full contorl of the drive which means that i still need help

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"when i created a new account i was able to access the drive E" "BUT i dont want to use the new account i want to use the original account" That has probably got nothing to do with you not being able to see logical drive E: , unless the whole drive was encrpyted and/or had a password to access it, or similar. If you deleted the original account, that also deletes everything in certain folders for that account - XP does that automatically for security reasons, and you are warned when you indicate you want to delete an account, though the warning is too brief and often overlooked or skipped over by the user. Specifically, everything in and attached to C:\Documents and Settings\(name of the account), and the (name of the account) folder itself, is deleted. E.g. if Windows, or you, named the account Fred, the Fred folder, and everything in and attached to that folder, including all the subfolders and their contents, are deleted. Anything deleted by doing that does not appear in the Recycle bin. The only way you can recover what has been deleted is to use an Unerase or Undelete program - the sooner you use it the better - the longer you wait, the more likely something that could have been recovered is overwritten by new data. You won't recover all of the data lost in any case, but you might be able to get most of it back. What is in C:\Documents and Settings\(name of the account)? E.g. In \Application Data The Application Data for certain programs. If that data is specific to the account, and not also in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users folder, it's gone. E.g. I have subfolders for Adobe (Reader 7), AVG (antivirus), Grisoft (AVG antivirus related), Microsoft Genuine Advantage, Microsoft (sub folders Media Player, Media Index, Network, User Account Pictures, and more) If you are using Outlook, you lose the default .pst file for that, which by default has all the email and personal data and personal settings for Outlook and all the attachments that came with the incoming email. Similar applies if you use Outlook Express. Some other email programs may also store all their data in C:\Documents and Settings\(name of the account), and you will lose that. System Restore can't restore any files that were deleted - it only restores a previous Registry, if available. "i have installed the diagnostic tool and i did not find any problem" That's good - that means your problem wasn't caused by a faulty hard drive that is corrupting or losing data.

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Have you tried starting up in Safe mode and choosing Administrator to see if you can access E:? (repeatedly press F8 while booting in the earliest part of the boot - don't hold down that key - when the menu of choices appears, choose Safe Mode - log in as Administrator.)

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as i said earlier i was able to access the drive e using a new account i also tried to access the drive using safe mode from my account but i failed but when i used the administrator account i was able to see and access the drive but untill now i am not able to access the drive in normal mode using my account do you have any suggestions??????????????

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Did you try taking ownership while logged in on the account you wish to use the drive?

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Did you delete your original account, or is that the one on which you can't access E:? Problems like yours are extremely unlikely to happen spontaneously unless the hard drive is defective - you say it passes the diagnostics. Did you run the long test? You, or something, must have made a change or changes. What went on just before this happened? It may have not had an effect until you booted again. Did you: - install or un-install software or hardware? - use any antivirus or antispyware program to remove malware, automatically or manually? (sometimes they make serious errors, especially anti-spyware programs) - fiddle with your user account settings? - delete anything to do with a program rather than un-installing it? - did anything strange happen, such as you were on the web and when you clicked on a link you went to a web page that had absolutely nothing to do with the subject, such as a porn page, and/or your browser (e.g. Internet Explorer) froze? (malware sometimes makes changes that don't show up until you boot again) - have you tried running a full anti-virus or anti-spyware scan? ..... Since you can access E: in Safe mode as Administrator, or when you make a new account, there's probably nothing wrong with it's data. If you, and we, can't figure out what caused your problem and fix it, if nothing else you could: 1.(If this is a desktop) get or borrow yourself another hard drive, new or used, at the very least at least as large as your E: partition (logical drive), and install it properly physically. (if this is a laptop, you can only do this procedure if you use an external hard drive, or use a flash device with enough capacity to hold the contents of the present E:) 2. Get a hard drive manufacturer's drive preparation programs disk from one or the other hard drive brand's web site - the one you normally use when a hard drive is new and blank. 3. Most manufacturer's drive preparation programs disks have a program or utility that can copy the data contents of a partition, or the entire partition including it's free space. Most require the partition the contents are copied to already be partitioned and formatted and have no data on it - in that case partition and format the second drive - don't put system files on it if asked - the partition should be at least large enough to hold all the data in E, but it is preferable it have at least some free space as well. Some require there is unallocated free space on the drive you copy the partition to - unpartioned - blank - space, at least as large as the partition you want to copy. If the second drive is new or is used and been wiped (has nothing on it), it is already ready for that; if it is a used drive with data on ot you have to delete it's existing partitions, if it doesn't have any or enough unpartitioned space on it. 4. Copy the entire E partition or it's data contents to the second drive with the utility (it does one or the other - you don't have a choice). It may say it's copying a drive, but it's a logical drive - a logical partition. 5. Boot your account that couldn't access E before - you should be able to access the copied partition on the second drive, but it won't be logical drive letter E anymore. 6. If that works, you can leave it as is, or - if you don't want the second drive and/or want the situation back to the way it was before you couldn't access E: - go into Safe mode, log on as Administrator, delete the logical E: drive on the first drive in Disk Management (Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Disk Management) - reboot, start up normally, go to Disk Management, partition and format the now empty third partition on the first drive. - You will then probably have no problem accessing that partition in My Computer or Windows Explorer. - if the drive letter of the third partition on the first drive is not E after doing that, you can fix that in Disk Management - assign any drive letter that is free - if E is being used, temporarily change drive letters to something else free so E is freed up, then assign E to the third partition on the first drive, and change other drive letters to suit after that if you need to (you can't change the drive letter of the partition Windows is installed on) - copy the entire data contents of the copied partition on the second drive to the now accessible E. - reboot the computer - all should be fine for E - if so, remove the second hard drive, or partition and format it and use it for other data.

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thank you all i have finally solved the problem by just changing the drive name from e to z special thanks to Tubesandwires for the idea

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Glad to hear you solved your problem, but you can use any logical drive letter that is free (avaiable) in Disk Management. I suspect the drive was still there all along - it just didn't have the logical drive letter E assigned to it.

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