HDD Troubles - Reactivate Drive?
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Anyone seen this before? :confused: For the last week or two, 3 of my hard drives in Windows 2K (All Dynamic) are disabled. I have to manually into manage my computer, and reactivate the drives :~ Anyone have any suggestions how to get Windows to keep these drives active after a power on reboot? The thing worked for years without any of this, but now out of nowhere, the D-F drives come up deactivated :~ Thanks, Paul...
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Anyone seen this before? :confused: For the last week or two, 3 of my hard drives in Windows 2K (All Dynamic) are disabled. I have to manually into manage my computer, and reactivate the drives :~ Anyone have any suggestions how to get Windows to keep these drives active after a power on reboot? The thing worked for years without any of this, but now out of nowhere, the D-F drives come up deactivated :~ Thanks, Paul...
I have a similar problem, after every boot or whenever i remove my pendrive and reatach it and try to browse my pendrive, it gives a error saying that bad format, then i choose format on the right click menu on the pendrive, now i am able to broswe my pendrive and funny things is the data is not lost.:confused:
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill - Dire Straits
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I have a similar problem, after every boot or whenever i remove my pendrive and reatach it and try to browse my pendrive, it gives a error saying that bad format, then i choose format on the right click menu on the pendrive, now i am able to broswe my pendrive and funny things is the data is not lost.:confused:
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill - Dire Straits
Yes, that is strange :omg: In my case, 2 of the drives are 200G and the other is 80G. The 200G's are on a PCI controller, the 80G is on my secondary channel. It's really becoming a pain! :mad:
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Anyone seen this before? :confused: For the last week or two, 3 of my hard drives in Windows 2K (All Dynamic) are disabled. I have to manually into manage my computer, and reactivate the drives :~ Anyone have any suggestions how to get Windows to keep these drives active after a power on reboot? The thing worked for years without any of this, but now out of nowhere, the D-F drives come up deactivated :~ Thanks, Paul...
Grab the Seagate Tools (or those from another manufacturer) from their website and read out the SMART-Errorreport, just to make sure your drive is not going down the drain. If there are a lot of new errors consider replacing the drive. And always follow the 3 golden rules: 1. Backup 2. Backup again 3. Backup once more ;) dirk
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Anyone seen this before? :confused: For the last week or two, 3 of my hard drives in Windows 2K (All Dynamic) are disabled. I have to manually into manage my computer, and reactivate the drives :~ Anyone have any suggestions how to get Windows to keep these drives active after a power on reboot? The thing worked for years without any of this, but now out of nowhere, the D-F drives come up deactivated :~ Thanks, Paul...
You could try the
diskparttool (although I'm not sure if it's in W2K) - it's the commandline equivalent of the Disk Management application.
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Anyone seen this before? :confused: For the last week or two, 3 of my hard drives in Windows 2K (All Dynamic) are disabled. I have to manually into manage my computer, and reactivate the drives :~ Anyone have any suggestions how to get Windows to keep these drives active after a power on reboot? The thing worked for years without any of this, but now out of nowhere, the D-F drives come up deactivated :~ Thanks, Paul...
I've had the same problem several times just before the drives went south permanently. (On one occasion in the late 80s, we found with one drive that would start spinning if we took the cover off and tapped the spindle, but I wouldn't recommend that.) Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke