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No icon showing for my external hardrive!
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Posted by: slavem_31
i bought an external hd case today and bought 80 gig hd.
anyways i insert the hd in external case and fix leads and so forth.
anyways i plug it in too the usb2 card (which i purchased after finding out my systeams usb ports werent usb2)
ok first of all i have installed service pack 1( coz i got told that would help in some way)
and everythings running fine it detects it no problems but i cant find the hd icon that should appear in "my computer" so i go too the manufactures website and download the usb2 drivers so yeh i restart and still no icon for hd and i cant access it even though everything in device manager appears too be working correctly.
the specs that could relate too the problem
amd 1800+
512 ddr
my motherboard model is a gigabyte model name: ga-7dxe
i really need help i feel like i just threw my money away!
thankyou
Posted by: redwench
has the drive in question been partitioned and formatted?
Posted by: slavem_31
yer just tryd dat then its all working now w00 h00
Posted by: CaptainBret
I also have a Rocketpod USB 120GB external hard drive. It worked great for 2 months. Suddenly, it developed the same problem -- no drive letter in Explorer, even though Device Manager shows the USB Mass Storage to be working properly. I have about 60Gigs of important data on the drive. Any ideas on what may have happenned, and how to reverse it?
Posted by: redwench
assuming youve tried other ports (use mobo port rather than pci card), hook it up to another computer and see if it can be read. if the drive itself is working properly, remove it and anything that refers to it, such as in the device manager. reboot without it and run a registry cleaner and scandisk/defrag. then shutdown, hook up, and reboot.
Posted by: CaptainBret
Indeed, one of the first things I did was move the drive to 2 other computers and try them. The same symptom occured on the other 2 computers as well -- no drive letter in Explorer, even though Device Manager was showing the USB Mass Storage device, and indicating the drivers were working properly.
Doing some more sleuthing, I went into the Windows XP disk manager and discovered that the drive showed up, but was no longer "allocated." I guess this means that somehow the drive partition is fouled.
I started Norton Disk Doctor, and for about 30 minutes in has been "Searching Dos Partitions" on the drive. From the completion bar, it appears that this will take another 2 hours to finish. I hope this will fix it!
Posted by: CaptainBret
Disk repair failed. After an hour of going through the disk -- the yellow disk access light on the front of the drive was blinking the whole time -- Norton's Disk Doctor said "No DOS partitions found" and quit. Anybody got any ideas on what to try next?
Posted by: redwench
well, if it was formatted in ntfs, it wouldnt find dos partitions. and if you formatted it with xp, thats what it is. do a bit more googling, see if you can find something you dont have to pay for that can fix partitions or do data recovery from ntfs.
Posted by: CaptainBret
I was successful in finding software to rebuild the NTFS partition, but not for free. I purchased RecoverItAll from DTIDATA.com for $80. Thanks, Redwench, for your assistance.
P.S. to Redwench. Does that mean you're a redheaded woman? My wife is one of those!
Posted by: redwench
indeed.
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