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Old December 26th 05, 09:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Default 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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Old December 27th 05, 08:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Default 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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