No D, E drive recognition

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

frosty - 27 May 2008 02:16 GMT

I still have no D, E drive recognition even though I tried resolution in
Article ID 314060.

I basically want to re-format and re-install from system up, but fear
computer's inability to read CDs on these drives.

Can anyone help? Assume I'm pretty much a novice. Thanks!

Reply to this Message

Doug Bashford - 27 May 2008 02:55 GMT

=?Utf-8?B?ZnJvc3R5?= said about:
No D, E drive recognition

> I still have no D, E drive recognition even though I tried resolution in
> Article ID 314060.

Are those hard partitioned off your C drive?
...or separate drive boxes?

> I basically want to re-format and re-install from system up, but fear
> computer's inability to read CDs on these drives.

Huh? CDs use the CD drive.

> Can anyone help? Assume I'm pretty much a novice. Thanks!

If they are hard partitioned off your C drive,
you'll prolly need to become a quasi-expert to
fix it. A common problem is that the cylinder
and head size, etc, get changed in firmware,
thus your OS can't find the begining nor end
of your lost drives. ...like the OS is confused
and lost in an unmapped forest.

Hopefully you'll be able to find an old test
report that shows your old values. Once you
decipher that, you can re-enter your firmware
values. This'll prolly take some trial and
error. In the mean time, avoid big disk
writes.

Cylinder and head size math was seemingly invented
by a confused spider on LSD.

A more pleasant option is to consider suicide.

--Doug

--

PURE Republicanism?? It's now clear.
Six years of PURE Republicanism - BOTH houses
AND the Prez. Pure as it gets.
So?
Are you better off now than seven years ago?
Are you proud with what they have done to
America and her reputation? ...To your reputation?
...all the sleaze, lies and bribery?
How about all the killing?
...Americans torture now? Proud?

If actions speak louder than rhetoric, then
name ONE good thing about Republicanism.
Just one.

Just one *real* thing.

Can't do it?
You have only feelsgood rhetoric?

So? Your Republicanism more like a bad habit then?

Reply to this Message

frosty - 27 May 2008 05:24 GMT

Test report, cylinder and head size, ???? OK, Doug, your response made me
chuckle anyway. I have already tried to restore my system to a date when it
was working, but even then email had become intolerably slow, and the system
wouldn't "take" the restore.

I think this thing is too much for me to handle; wanting to become an expert
and reading lots still doesn't seem to make me one. Will talk to a friend in
I.T. to see if he can physically look at the issue, and if that doesn't work
I'll have to take my computer in to a pro.

Thanks anyway for the speedy and clever advice.

Signature

frosty

> =?Utf-8?B?ZnJvc3R5?= said about:
> No D, E drive recognition
[quoted text clipped - 58 lines]
>
> So? Your Republicanism more like a bad habit then?

Reply to this Message

frosty - 27 May 2008 05:29 GMT

OH yes, one more thing re:

> I basically want to re-format and re-install from system up, but fear
> computer's inability to read CDs on these drives.

Huh? CDs use the CD drive.

CD's can't use the CD drive if it can't be accessed and if the computer
refuses to read it. So, for instance, after trying "fix" in Article ID
314060, the first advice if I still couldn't see D & E drives was to
re-install my CD recording program. Except -- I can't re-install anything
from a CD because the drive I place it on is not recognized. Catch-22. Oh
well.

Signature

frosty

> Test report, cylinder and head size, ???? OK, Doug, your response made me
> chuckle anyway. I have already tried to restore my system to a date when it
[quoted text clipped - 70 lines]
> >
> > So? Your Republicanism more like a bad habit then?

Reply to this Message

Doug Bashford - 27 May 2008 06:54 GMT

=?Utf-8?B?ZnJvc3R5?= <kctowne7@msn.com.(donotspam)> said about:
Re: No D, E drive recognition

> OH yes, one more thing re:
>
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> from a CD because the drive I place it on is not recognized. Catch-22. Oh
> well.

OK, so these drives are NOT
hard partitioned off your C drive.
( "D & E drives" are soft designations,
and don't indicate what kind of drives
they might be. )

You might check for a loose connection
off your drive boxes, with power off.
...like a poorly seated connector.

When you get it up and running, run
Programs > Accesories > System Tools > System Information
and save a copy of the full report.
Stash it where you can find it in a panic.

> > Test report, cylinder and head size, ???? OK, Doug, your response made me
> > chuckle anyway. I have already tried to restore my system to a date when it
[quoted text clipped - 48 lines]
> > >
> > > --

PURE Republicanism?? It's now clear.
Six years of PURE Republicanism - BOTH houses
AND the Prez. Pure as it gets.
So?
Are you better off now than seven years ago?
Are you proud with what they have done to
America and her reputation? ...To your reputation?
...all the sleaze, lies and bribery?
How about all the killing?
...Americans torture now? Proud?

If actions speak louder than rhetoric, then
name ONE good thing about Republicanism.
Just one.

Just one *real* thing.

Can't do it?
You have only feelsgood rhetoric?

So? Your Republicanism more like a bad habit then?

Reply to this Message