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Claire
Windows XP pro SP2 with all updates.
At work I run a hard disk drive housed in an external Icy Box firewire/usb
device using firewire. It's partitioned into drives Y and Z, ntfs, and is
for storing music and other data files. Not a boot drive.
Ive had problems losing connection from XP pro whenever I try to store large
volumes of files in a single batch. I usually have to reset the Icybox and
re-scan from disk management to get the drive recognized. It's been a bit of
a nuisance.
Anyway, today I was performing a CD copy (with nero) onto my C:\temp
directory. I store my cd collection on the icybox, so the only disk activity
on the Z drive should have been what media player was reading.
As nero was writing the image, I started getting errors from WMP saying that
it couldn't read files on the Z drive and I needed to run a chkdsk
When I tried that I was told to unmount the drive and reboot. (I don't
believe this is a virus problem)
After that, I now seem to have 2 partitions with no/RAW file system
installed. The empty Y drive reformatted with no problems. I don't want to
reformat my Z drive as that's got all my data on it.
How can I rebuild my master boot record in XP pro? cmd window won't let me
change to the z drive, disk management doesn't let me do anything useful. I
don't have a floppy disk drive, only room for either cd player OR this disk
drive (not both) in my shuttle pc case
thanks
Claire
At work I run a hard disk drive housed in an external Icy Box firewire/usb
device using firewire. It's partitioned into drives Y and Z, ntfs, and is
for storing music and other data files. Not a boot drive.
Ive had problems losing connection from XP pro whenever I try to store large
volumes of files in a single batch. I usually have to reset the Icybox and
re-scan from disk management to get the drive recognized. It's been a bit of
a nuisance.
Anyway, today I was performing a CD copy (with nero) onto my C:\temp
directory. I store my cd collection on the icybox, so the only disk activity
on the Z drive should have been what media player was reading.
As nero was writing the image, I started getting errors from WMP saying that
it couldn't read files on the Z drive and I needed to run a chkdsk
When I tried that I was told to unmount the drive and reboot. (I don't
believe this is a virus problem)
After that, I now seem to have 2 partitions with no/RAW file system
installed. The empty Y drive reformatted with no problems. I don't want to
reformat my Z drive as that's got all my data on it.
How can I rebuild my master boot record in XP pro? cmd window won't let me
change to the z drive, disk management doesn't let me do anything useful. I
don't have a floppy disk drive, only room for either cd player OR this disk
drive (not both) in my shuttle pc case
thanks
Claire