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Subject: Accessing a Non Functioning "G" Drive
Posted by: Farn
- Sustainer [451044109] Tue, Sep 14, 2004, 23:50
Ok, friend of mine installed a program on his G drive. No idea why considering his windows XP stuff is on his c drive. But he isn't a computer guy.
Anyway, it stopped him from accessing his G drive. He gets an error that says "G:\ is not accessible, incorrect function" when he tries to access it through the my computer area. Nothing gets him to the drive. Tried Safe Mode and nothing. DOS mode is way over his head.
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| 1 | Perm Dude
ID: 2343587
Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 00:07
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Can he access the drive through the My Computer icon (not access what's on the drive, but does it come up as a regular drive)?
Can he get a DOS prompt and cd g: and see if DOS reads the drive, or is this not possible?
pd
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| 2 | Farn
Sustainer
ID: 451044109
Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 00:26
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no dice on either of those.
defrag isn't an option either.
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| 3 | Perm Dude
ID: 2343587
Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 00:32
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Any chance he could simply re-install the program on the c drive?
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| 4 | Farn
Sustainer
ID: 451044109
Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 00:33
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well yeah, that's not the issue. its the fact that he can't access his g drive in any capacity. all he wants to do is delete it from his g drive.
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| 5 | Perm Dude
ID: 2343587
Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 00:38
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There seems to be a problem with secondary cd devices in XP (specifically, early versions of XP had problems detecting secondary cd devices).
This probably doesn't answer your question but might give some clues.
pd
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| 6 | Mike D
Sustainer
ID: 41831612
Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 14:55
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What IS his G Drive? CD? DVD? Zip? Etc? And is there anything on it? He could always just format it.
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| 7 | biliruben
ID: 441182916
Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 15:25
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Sounds obvious, but does he have a G: drive? Is it a partition or a seperate harddrive? Is it formatted using the same system as his C?
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| 8 | Farn
Sustainer
ID: 451044109
Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 15:47
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My bad, I wasn't explaining well.
He bought an 80 gig hard drive last fall and installed it. That's his hard drive. I think its a Western Digital.
It will not recognize it at all, almost as if it doesn't exist. Its plugged in correctly. The program he installed isn't a virus at all. It just shouldn't have been installed on his non windows drive.
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| 9 | Mike D
Sustainer
ID: 41831612
Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 15:56
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So his C drive is his main drive and the G drive is the slave??? Has the G drive ever worked? Has he ever put anything on it? How old is his bios?
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| 10 | youngroman
ID: 206491016
Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 16:07
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what drives are listed under disk-management? more info can be found here
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| 11 | Farn
Sustainer
ID: 451044109
Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 20:40
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his c drive is the master. the g is the slave. his G drive is full of all kinds of files, just no OS on it.
He did the disk management and it shows it as being healthy and active. But it says its 100% empty, which is completely false (unless something wiped it out).
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| 12 | James K Polk
ID: 51010719
Thu, Sep 16, 2004, 20:46
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Is his computer on a network?
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| 13 | Farn
Sustainer
ID: 451044109
Thu, Sep 16, 2004, 20:50
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a school network but not networked to other computers in a house.
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| 14 | James K Polk
ID: 51010719
Thu, Sep 16, 2004, 21:40
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I had a problem with an iPod I was hooking up at work, which was trying to map to the H: drive. No matter what I did, I couldn't get it to recognize the music on there. Then I realized that our computer services dept. had system-wide mapped everyone to a network drive at H:, and I hadn't noticed (it wasn't a drive I ever used). Once I re-mapped it, my iPod was recognized just fine.
Don't know if anything similar might be going on with your friend, but it would be worth making sure that he doesn't have any network drives mapped to G:.
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| 15 | Cosmo's Cod Piece
ID: 144192417
Sun, Sep 19, 2004, 17:35
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I would rec. that your friend physically removes the drive from the computer and puts it into another one as a slave. See if that computer recognizes it then.
Has your friend tried looking at BIOS settings? Maybe something got screwed up there somehow. Stranger things have happened.
I'd consider changing the drive letter as well.
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