First off, I give much respect and appreciation to those who run and contribute to this website. I have followed for a while and see great things happening here everyday. Kudos to you all. My issue is that I got a pretty nasty virus that I feared had wiped my hard drive. It corrupted my boot sector somehow and I couldn't even boot in safe mode w/o the blue screen of death giving me a stop error. I used an install disc and fixed it with the software fix. so now I am back up and running all systems go.
my home network might have a virus, programs start up and suddenly close/disappear. On one of the computers an error comes up and says that windows is shutting down(lass.exe file), then it shuts down and reboots. My anti-virus software can't detect nothing. I downloaded the sasser fix and it doesn't detect anything.
applications were running slow, having problems closing etc. I expected a virus problem, but NIS 2005 did not detect any viruses. This morning I attempted to boot the machine as usual, and I found that windows would not boot after repeated attempts in any mode. I borrowed a friends windows XP cd, i dont have mine on hand, and attempted to repair the installation. However, when it tried to copy files to the hard drive it said that it could not detect it.
Naturally, seeing this i assumed that the harddrive had gotten knocked around, bad power lead, etc. I made sure that the connecters were securely attached and booted again, repair etc, same problem. I believe that the problem lies with the configuration of using a PCI card to connect the hard drive to the motherboard. When its connected to the mother board, however, the boot agent wont run, saying that the "disk is not ready" or something to that extent.
I installed an a 2.5 Toshiba notebook drive in a external enclosure and I can't get XP to recognize it. The drive spins up and the light comes on to indicate it is running but nothing is shown in device manager or My computer. It also is not shown in disk management.I have uninstalled the the USB drivers through the device manager with no change after rebooting. The USB ports work fine with my other external drive.The drive was working fine in a notebook that had a cracked screen. It is formated in NTFS. What else should I be looking at to solve this problem?
I have a Sabrent SBT-EKU25 external enclosure with a 2.5 inch hard disk in it. This is a USB 2.0 drive and whenever I connect it to USB 2.0 port, it is not recognized (or "recognized" as an unknown device" ) on all my machines. It however is recognized as a drive and works fine on one laptop which has only USB 1.1 ports.I have tried separately powered USB hubs as well without success. So I don't think it's a power issue.I have even tried deleting all USB devices in Device Manager and let the machine rediscover them.
Your hard drive is suddenly full and you are left wondering where did all my free space go? Now you must begin the task of deleting old files and folders to reclaim space but where do you start? In the past I would suggest manually checking the sizes of all of your folders so you know where to begin the hunt but now there is a great utility called WinDirStat that does the work for you. After inspecting a drive you are shown exactly how much data is in each folder, what file types are taking up the most space and even a visual representation of the files on your disk
I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250 GB hard drive. I had ghosted a dying WD 150 GB drive on it and had been using it about a week. After a restart it said that ntdlr was missing. Solved that problem. Then a little while later, the disk could not be recognized. Took it to a data recovery place and they said all the data was still on there. For $100 bucks, they reconstructed the logic on the drive - whatever that means - but to recover the data entirely was going to be $1500+. So I took it home to give the recovery a shot myself. I hooked it up as a cable select in the slave position on an existing Win XP Pro cable select ready system. The computer works fine but I can't see the 250 hard drive anywhere. Not in any software I have downloaded, not off any boot disks, not in any command prompts, not even in the bIOS. The cable is fine, the power is fine, and the drive spins up.
I have been using this pc with windows xp for about a month now and up to now I have had no problems, but for some reason my drive has suddenly stopped reading dvds...My drive is an Optiarc DVD-RW AD-5170AI can insert a cd and it recognizes and reads the disk perfectly, but when I insert a dvd windows appears to start to read the disk, but after a few seconds nothing seems to be happening except that the read light on the drive is lit and the drive makes a few strange sounds. I have left it to load for a few minutes but still nothing happens.After searching, I have found 2 possible solutions:The first was to uninstall the driver and restart. Upon restart windows will reinstall the device.I tried that twice, still experiencing the same problem.
A Toshiba Satellite 2805-S503 that originally came with Windows ME. My friend at work upgraded my OS to Windows XP but now my CD-ROM drive doesn't recognize CDs. It recognizes DVDs and some games, but it won't read any CDs.
I have a Compaq Presario with a Celeron CPU 2.53 GHz and 504 MB of Ram. I use Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 3. I know its a old machine but does what I need it to do. My computer has done this for a long time but I'm getting sick of having to restart the system to access CD drive. When system initially boots up the CD drive will open and close just fine but sometime later (not sure exactly how much later, (hours of 1-2 days) the door won't open by pushing button or sticking pin in small hole. If I go to My computer it doesn't even show the CD drive. What could be causing this?
I'm now praying that this will get fixed--my computer isn't recognizing any cd's I put in my d drive. It won't show up anywhere and when I go to my device manager there's a red x on top of the cd icon. I don't have any viruses or anything-I've run everything- and I've tried unplugging some of the wires and replugging them. I don't even know what that;s suposed to do or which wire is which. If anyone can help I would be soooooo grateful. my dad'll blame this on me if it doesnt get fixed asap. I have windows xp. and when I type in D:/ into run, I get the message:
D:/ refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and then try again. If it stil cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a different location.
I've got a IBM ThinkCenter that just won't boot. It powers on just fine, and I even tried installing a brand new power supply, so power isn't the problem. When I turn it on, I almost immediately get the IBM and Intel logos on screen but that's all. The machine does not seem to try to read from the hard drive, CD ROM or A drive. It never allows me to enter the BIOS or try to start Windows. I'm not even sure if the keyboard and mouse are being recognized. Is this a hardware problem? if so what? or can I still get this thing to boot somehow?
I was aware that Windows used to have limitations on the size of Hard Disk Drives for file sizes etc. but I had thought that these had now been fixed with XP & XP PRO. I installed a new 250GB into a friends machine about a month ago & this went without incident. Yesterday I just put into an external caddie a USB2 drive of 300GB into my machine. XP Pro recognizes the drive & it will work but my computer displays the size as only 127GB which is less than half 's true size.
After backing up on this drive for nine months (and with a reformating three months ago), now the backup will not recognize the E: drive. No error message is given. MY Computer shows that it is now 3/4 full with plenty of space (46 gig) on the Acomodate 160 gig drive under NTSF format. I am thinking of changing to a fire wire from the USB.I have been doing a complete system backup and maybe I'll change to just backing up my documents after we get it working.
I recently recieved a Maxtor 40 GB Hard drive. i have installed everything Correctly ie. Power, Cable, ect. I have tried every single configuration of Jumper settings. It was reconized in bios, but it wouldn't come up as an icon in Xp. I have Xp Home W/SP2
I have two hard drives that were working perfectly on XP. I thentook out the second hard drive because I wanted to try and fix anotherhard drive. When I was finished I then put the original second harddrive back and now it is not recognized anywhere. Why? I may have moved the jumpers but I am pretty sure I did not. Even so I checked the picture on the hard drive and put them in the proper place. Why is the same drive now not recognized when it was just a day ago? I need to getsome files from it
both my externals are perfectly fine....they work on my other computer. Originally when i plugged them into my laptop the Found New Hardware wizard would startup, but be unable to do anything.
I was messing with partitioning my hard drive. Nothing challenging, but it seemed to work. But then partition magic said the entire drive was "BAD" and had no partitions, knowing full well it had four.
My computer still worked. Then it would get to where it was restarting on its own for no reason. Then sometimes the bios recognized the master and the slave drive and loaded, but most of the time it didn't recognize either, and wouldn't load. Sometimes it just recognized one drive.
I had thought maybe the MBR was messed up. But then why wouldn't the bios recognize the drives every time. And if one drive was messed up, that wouldn't effect the bios would it
I run WIN XP Pro on a Dell desktop that has two hard drive. I recently installed a CD drive and upon rebooting, the secondary drive (D), although recognized by the startup (BIOS), is no longer present when Windows finally opens. It's not present in the device manager and all shortcuts to it are null. All the bables are correctly installed and I've tried rebooting, re-installing the drive to no avail.
My USB External Hard Drive suddenly decided to stop working monday before last, it is weird, like it will turn on and all, but it doesnt get recognized and while its on none of my programs will load like Ventrilo and games(ventrillo will half load but not all the way) and the computer wont shutdown while its on. but the moment i turn it off they all start running smoothly agian and the computer will shutdown immediatly (if i am at the shutdown screen). Any idea why/how this happened and how to fix it?
Win XP Professional in new Dell Vostro does not recognize Bytecc 320 external hsng with 250 gb Seagate drive. Under hardware manager it shows up and says this device working properly. XP does not assign a drive letter. Disk management shows device but reports it as 128 Gb capacity. I do not want to settle for half the drive's capacity so i did not create a partition.
I have a sata 500 GB hard drive from Seagate that just won't get recognized. I've been in Disk Management, I've scanned the disk, I've rebooted, and Disk 1 is there, but the message is it's offline--and after I did the reboot I got the message that the hard drive USB had been recognized--but it ain't there.
Oem disc auto partions any hdd as 16GB os fat 32/D:\ drive NTFS raw. The Sony OEM disc(s) are pre sp1. What steps do I take to install and get the full 200 GB to bea recoginized correctly?
Okay so here is my situation. I have to sell this computer soon, but I have two hard drives. Since one of them has a lot of valuable data on it, I decided to keep one of them, and only sell one hard drive with the computer.Before this, I had Windows XP installed on BOTH drives. I kept the one on the old hard drive as a back up. Anyway, since this hard drive was gonna go, I had to delete everything on the hard drive. So I formatted the drive, and now suddenly, it says the OTHER drive is read only! I didn't even touch it!It won't even let me access the XP start up, it'll only let me insert my Ubuntu Live CD! Is there anything I can do with the Windows Installation CD to make it so this hard drive ISN'T read-only?(I already tried reinstalling Windows, it won't even let me do that!)I desperately need to resolve this fast, because somebody will be coming to pick up the old hard drive soon.TL;DR: Deleting a partition on my other drive has made my main one read-only.
I've tried a lot of the spyware, virus stuff, that one guy tried to help me out with but my screen still isnt fixed. It blinks grey and white and cant get to my desktop properties.
I registered myself as a 'beginner' and now I'm thinking 'illiterate' would have been more accurate. If I can fix this, I will be sooo excited.I don't know how I made the change, but all of a sudden everything on my screen was magnified ginormously. I figured out how to change the resolution, but then ended up getting everthing small and vertically tall. When I go into settings to try to put it back the window is so tall I cannot get down to click on the "apply" button. How do I make the changes now that I can't get to the apply button?
I managed to fix the WgaLogon.dll logon problem, but now I'm getting "Excecuting C:WindowsSystem32wlnotify.dll" as well as the "Playing logon sound" as before. I tried searching Google for a solution for this too but there was nothing.
I have a computer that has Hal.dll missing. Can this be fixed through the recovery console? I think it can but I don't remember how. A Wipe/install isnt the best option here.
Browsed these forums and others, tried various solutions, and I can't find anything that's helping me out.I'm running Windows XP Home on a laptop, and when it attempts to boot, it tells me that hal.dll is missing or corrupt.To correct this, I put in my Windows XP CD, and I can get it to the recovery console just fine. At the recovery console, I've tried the following:- chkdsk ("The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems.")- bootcfg ("There are currently no boot entries available to display.")- fixboot ("The boot sector cannot be fixed.") - expand from CD ("The specified file was not found."- repair installation (It won't even begin. Error as soon as I select the partition C:)
