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HDD in Management but not My Computer
Had a crashed computer from a friend. Kept getting "NTBTLDR.EXE is missing"
or something like that... I took out the HDD and I connected it to my PC using my CD drive cables since I have a very small system with very limited hardware resources... I can't run 3HDD and CD ROM at same time. HDD worked fine... I pulled some files off it that she needed for school, all in .wps format. In order to check that they were the correct files I had to download a .wps viewer for WordXP. Do I downloaded it, and tried to install it. At this point, despite my Custom Install request of Run All From HDD, I am told to insert the OfficeXP CD to install the feature I am trying to run... WTF is that????? My CD drive is out. I have to shutdown and reconnect the CD drive, get the plugin installed, and we check little girl's files... Wrong ones... So great I just plug the HDD back in and grab the rest of the files for her report on Baroque Art... I do a "Run all from HDD" type install and I am so frustrated and ****ed off that I am constantly being asked for the CD to install whatever feature it might be that I need... So of couse this is what happened this time... I tried to install the download and I was told I had to put in the CD... well of course I had disconnected the CD drive... so I shut down, reconnected the CD and ran the disk like asked. Checked the files, and they were the wrong one. So with new converter installed I went back to plugging in this little girl's HDD to retrieve the remainder of her school files... Wrong. Now Windows won't recognize the HDD... well it does, sort of... My BIOS sees the HDD just fine. Strange part is, Windows Admin Tools Disk Management can see the drive too, which used to be a "Basic, FAT32" Now Disk Management tells me one of two things... Most often it tells me that the disk is now Dynamic and Unreadable... Sometimes it tells me the Disk is Active, Dynamic FAT32 and I get a colored line on the graphics (of the disk management window) like the disk is active and ready, and I STILL can't access the drive from My Computer... What is going on here? I call Microsoft and they tell me "if you don't want to have to use the CD for updates then you should make a flash of the CD to your HDD"... that is crap... that is the WORST work-around I have ever seen. And is there a way to force a look into this broke tower HDD? some software out there that can force open the disk, let me look inside and grab something since Windows can't seem to recognize its own file allocation structures twice in a row ? |
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HDD in Management but not My Computer
Hey Brian,
I know exactly how you feel but that is how working on computers is, a little weird . Well the problem that you are facing may well be a failing hdd. You should try to find a drive diagnostic utility from the manufacturer's website and then check the drive using that utility. You may also want to reboot and try accessing the drive again. It sometimes happens that windows is not able to properly read the drive on boot and it may result in such a problem. Hope this helps yogi "Brian Lynn" wrote: Had a crashed computer from a friend. Kept getting "NTBTLDR.EXE is missing" or something like that... I took out the HDD and I connected it to my PC using my CD drive cables since I have a very small system with very limited hardware resources... I can't run 3HDD and CD ROM at same time. HDD worked fine... I pulled some files off it that she needed for school, all in .wps format. In order to check that they were the correct files I had to download a .wps viewer for WordXP. Do I downloaded it, and tried to install it. At this point, despite my Custom Install request of Run All From HDD, I am told to insert the OfficeXP CD to install the feature I am trying to run... WTF is that????? My CD drive is out. I have to shutdown and reconnect the CD drive, get the plugin installed, and we check little girl's files... Wrong ones... So great I just plug the HDD back in and grab the rest of the files for her report on Baroque Art... I do a "Run all from HDD" type install and I am so frustrated and ****ed off that I am constantly being asked for the CD to install whatever feature it might be that I need... So of couse this is what happened this time... I tried to install the download and I was told I had to put in the CD... well of course I had disconnected the CD drive... so I shut down, reconnected the CD and ran the disk like asked. Checked the files, and they were the wrong one. So with new converter installed I went back to plugging in this little girl's HDD to retrieve the remainder of her school files... Wrong. Now Windows won't recognize the HDD... well it does, sort of... My BIOS sees the HDD just fine. Strange part is, Windows Admin Tools Disk Management can see the drive too, which used to be a "Basic, FAT32" Now Disk Management tells me one of two things... Most often it tells me that the disk is now Dynamic and Unreadable... Sometimes it tells me the Disk is Active, Dynamic FAT32 and I get a colored line on the graphics (of the disk management window) like the disk is active and ready, and I STILL can't access the drive from My Computer... What is going on here? I call Microsoft and they tell me "if you don't want to have to use the CD for updates then you should make a flash of the CD to your HDD"... that is crap... that is the WORST work-around I have ever seen. And is there a way to force a look into this broke tower HDD? some software out there that can force open the disk, let me look inside and grab something since Windows can't seem to recognize its own file allocation structures twice in a row ? |
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