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Partition Table Problem with Hard Drive
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. |
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Partition Table Problem with Hard Drive
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: 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FCA Stourport, Worcs, England Enquire, plan and execute. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please tell the newsgroup how any=20 suggested solution worked for you. http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "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. |
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Partition Table Problem with Hard Drive
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: 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FCA Stourport, Worcs, England Enquire, plan and execute. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please tell the newsgroup how any=20 suggested solution worked for you. http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "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. |
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Partition Table Problem with Hard Drive
Thanks. That's exactly what I needed. It works fine now and
hopefully this will fix my reboot problem as well. |
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Partition Table Problem with Hard Drive
Thanks. That's exactly what I needed. It works fine now and
hopefully this will fix my reboot problem as well. |
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