Does anyone have any suggestions on my case?
I am using XP.
There are C, D, E Drives for my PC, sometimes, D drive disappeared, after a
periods, it appears again. Does anyone have any suggestions on my case?
and how to solve this problem?
Thank you in advance
Eric

"Eric" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:483F91E4-0C5F-488A-8149-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Does anyone have any suggestions on my case?
> I am using XP.
> There are C, D, E Drives for my PC, sometimes, D drive disappeared, after
> a
> periods, it appears again. Does anyone have any suggestions on my case?
> and how to solve this problem?
> Thank you in advance
> Eric

You're not telling us what drive D: is. If it is a USB
flash disk then the simple answer is: plug it in!

Click Start / Run / diskmgmt.msc {OK} to see what
disks and drives exist on your machine, both with
drive D: visible and invisible.

D: Drive is a harddrive
Thank you
Eric

"Pegasus" wrote:

>
> "Eric" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:483F91E4-0C5F-488A-8149-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Does anyone have any suggestions on my case?
> > I am using XP.
> > There are C, D, E Drives for my PC, sometimes, D drive disappeared, after
> > a
> > periods, it appears again. Does anyone have any suggestions on my case?
> > and how to solve this problem?
> > Thank you in advance
> > Eric
>
> You're not telling us what drive D: is. If it is a USB
> flash disk then the simple answer is: plug it in!
>
> Click Start / Run / diskmgmt.msc {OK} to see what
> disks and drives exist on your machine, both with
> drive D: visible and invisible.
>
>
>

Great. Now what about diskmgmt.msc?


"Eric" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> D: Drive is a harddrive
> Thank you
> Eric
>
> "Pegasus" wrote:
>
>>
>> "Eric" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:483F91E4-0C5F-488A-8149-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Does anyone have any suggestions on my case?
>> > I am using XP.
>> > There are C, D, E Drives for my PC, sometimes, D drive disappeared,
>> > after
>> > a
>> > periods, it appears again. Does anyone have any suggestions on my case?
>> > and how to solve this problem?
>> > Thank you in advance
>> > Eric
>>
>> You're not telling us what drive D: is. If it is a USB
>> flash disk then the simple answer is: plug it in!
>>
>> Click Start / Run / diskmgmt.msc {OK} to see what
>> disks and drives exist on your machine, both with
>> drive D: visible and invisible.
>>
>>
>>

"Eric" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> D: Drive is a harddrive
> Thank you
> Eric
>

In that case you may have a loose connection, either on the power connector
or on the interface connector.

I did nothing, now the D drive appears again.
This situation occurred more than 2 times for a long period of time.
Last occurrence was more than 3 months ago. If there is a connection
problem, it should occur very often within a short period of time.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank everyone for suggestions
Eric

"M.I.5¾" wrote:

>
> "Eric" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:BB4949CA-9B67-4AD6-B70D-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > D: Drive is a harddrive
> > Thank you
> > Eric
> >
>
> In that case you may have a loose connection, either on the power connector
> or on the interface connector.
>
>
>
>

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:29:01 -0700, Eric
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I did nothing, now the D drive appears again.
>This situation occurred more than 2 times for a long period of time.
>Last occurrence was more than 3 months ago. If there is a connection
>problem, it should occur very often within a short period of time.

That aint necessarily so.

A dodgy connection can be intermittent and not occur more than every
few months. It can be caused by a connection that has worked itself
loose due to vibration, or the inexplicable failure of a wire in the
ribbon cable (inexplicable because there is no reason for such a thing
to happen but it does).

Check the D cables are firmly plugged in at both ends, and if they
are, replace the power and data cables to the D: drive, and see if
that fixes the problem. It's a fiddly job but cables are cheap and
it's the most obvious solution.

You might want to do it sooner rather than later as the problem may
vanish only to re-occur in the middle of a disk write operation and
then you'll be seriously knackered.

Thank everyone for suggestions
Eric

"nl" wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:29:01 -0700, Eric
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >I did nothing, now the D drive appears again.
> >This situation occurred more than 2 times for a long period of time.
> >Last occurrence was more than 3 months ago. If there is a connection
> >problem, it should occur very often within a short period of time.
>
> That aint necessarily so.
>
> A dodgy connection can be intermittent and not occur more than every
> few months. It can be caused by a connection that has worked itself
> loose due to vibration, or the inexplicable failure of a wire in the
> ribbon cable (inexplicable because there is no reason for such a thing
> to happen but it does).
>
> Check the D cables are firmly plugged in at both ends, and if they
> are, replace the power and data cables to the D: drive, and see if
> that fixes the problem. It's a fiddly job but cables are cheap and
> it's the most obvious solution.
>
> You might want to do it sooner rather than later as the problem may
> vanish only to re-occur in the middle of a disk write operation and
> then you'll be seriously knackered.
>