Partition Table Problem with Hard Drive

[MarkW]

I have two hard drives in my system and am running Windows XP
Professional. I have two problems with this.

First, my computer randomly reboots every day or so. After looking at
the system part of the event viewer around the time these reboots
occur I have a error msg saying:
The Device \Harddisk2\D is not ready for access yet.
I'm not sure if this is what's causing the reboot or if it's just
after the reboot and if this is a problem or not.

Second, I use Partition Magic 8.0 and for some reason it won't run.
When I try to open it it says:
Init Failed: Error 100
Partition Table is bad
How do I correct this problem? Is my hard drive possibly bad and is
there a program such as Norton Utilities (which I have) that I can run
to fix this? Or do I have to make a backup, reformat my hard drive,
and reinstall this?

Third, are these two problems connected?

Thanks.

[Gerry Cornell]

Mark

I do not know how to resolve your problem but FWIW I have a dual booting =
system ( Windows 98SE & Windows XP Home ) with two hard drives and a =
number of partitions created using Partition Magic v8.

Have you run Chkdsk to check your hard drive?

Found the following in Google which may explain the error message:

Message 3 in thread=20
From: kda )
Subject: Re: P4PE: The device is not ready for access yet?=20
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Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Date: 2002-12-07 12:45:58 PST=20
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Open DEVICE MANAGER and look for an entry that reads: =20
"SCSI and RAID controllers".

Click on that entry to open it and you will probably see the
following:

" Win XP Promise Fast Trak 375 (tm) controller".

Right click on that entry and select DISABLE from the menu.
That will solve your event error report. =20

Your first HD is drive 0. The second HD would be / is Drive 1 and so
on. I have two IDE HDs installed [ drive 0 and drive 1 ] so my error
message read:

The device, \Device\Harddisk2\D, is not ready for access yet.

But it is all the same thing. Your RAID controller is looking for a
HD it cannot find (because you have no HD on the RAID connectors) so
it reports that fact. =20

kda



For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.=20


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"MarkW" > wrote in message =
...
> I have two hard drives in my system and am running Windows XP
> Professional. I have two problems with this.
>=20
> First, my computer randomly reboots every day or so. After looking at
> the system part of the event viewer around the time these reboots
> occur I have a error msg saying:
> The Device \Harddisk2\D is not ready for access yet.
> I'm not sure if this is what's causing the reboot or if it's just
> after the reboot and if this is a problem or not.
>=20
> Second, I use Partition Magic 8.0 and for some reason it won't run.
> When I try to open it it says:
> Init Failed: Error 100
> Partition Table is bad
> How do I correct this problem? Is my hard drive possibly bad and is
> there a program such as Norton Utilities (which I have) that I can run
> to fix this? Or do I have to make a backup, reformat my hard drive,
> and reinstall this?
>=20
> Third, are these two problems connected?
>=20
> Thanks.

[Gerry Cornell]

Mark

I do not know how to resolve your problem but FWIW I have a dual booting =
system ( Windows 98SE & Windows XP Home ) with two hard drives and a =
number of partitions created using Partition Magic v8.

Have you run Chkdsk to check your hard drive?

Found the following in Google which may explain the error message:

Message 3 in thread=20
From: kda )
Subject: Re: P4PE: The device is not ready for access yet?=20
=20
=20
View this article only=20
Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Date: 2002-12-07 12:45:58 PST=20
=20

Open DEVICE MANAGER and look for an entry that reads: =20
"SCSI and RAID controllers".

Click on that entry to open it and you will probably see the
following:

" Win XP Promise Fast Trak 375 (tm) controller".

Right click on that entry and select DISABLE from the menu.
That will solve your event error report. =20

Your first HD is drive 0. The second HD would be / is Drive 1 and so
on. I have two IDE HDs installed [ drive 0 and drive 1 ] so my error
message read:

The device, \Device\Harddisk2\D, is not ready for access yet.

But it is all the same thing. Your RAID controller is looking for a
HD it cannot find (because you have no HD on the RAID connectors) so
it reports that fact. =20

kda



For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.=20


--=20
~~~~~~


Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Stourport, Worcs, England
Enquire, plan and execute.
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"MarkW" > wrote in message =
...
> I have two hard drives in my system and am running Windows XP
> Professional. I have two problems with this.
>=20
> First, my computer randomly reboots every day or so. After looking at
> the system part of the event viewer around the time these reboots
> occur I have a error msg saying:
> The Device \Harddisk2\D is not ready for access yet.
> I'm not sure if this is what's causing the reboot or if it's just
> after the reboot and if this is a problem or not.
>=20
> Second, I use Partition Magic 8.0 and for some reason it won't run.
> When I try to open it it says:
> Init Failed: Error 100
> Partition Table is bad
> How do I correct this problem? Is my hard drive possibly bad and is
> there a program such as Norton Utilities (which I have) that I can run
> to fix this? Or do I have to make a backup, reformat my hard drive,
> and reinstall this?
>=20
> Third, are these two problems connected?
>=20
> Thanks.

[MarkW]

Thanks. That's exactly what I needed. It works fine now and
hopefully this will fix my reboot problem as well.

[MarkW]

Thanks. That's exactly what I needed. It works fine now and
hopefully this will fix my reboot problem as well.