I'm wondering if anyone can help me with the following
problem:

When I try to open my D: drive I get the following message:

D:\ is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect.

Running chkdsk in safe mode gives no error messages for
the file check (which leads me to believe the files are
still there) but then when it checks the Usn journal it
stops with the following message:

Insufficient disk space to fix the Usn Journal $J data
stream

On my C: drive I have about 2 GB free disk space but I
presume the disk space problem is on the d: drive which I
can't access to remove files. But in any case before this
problem it had at least 1 GB, maybe 2 GB of free disk
space.

Other information: I'm running Windows 2000 Professional
on a notebook. I have one physical drive. D: is
partitioned. The C: drive works fine. For the D: drive,
when I click on Properties, General there is no label and
file system is unknown; under Tools neither Error-checking
nor Defragmentation work; Hardware reports that the
physical drive is working properly; and there is no
Security tab.

Before this problem occurred I changed the security
settings for one folder on this drive. I also removed one
of the users of the computer. On reflection it occurs to
me that perhaps this user was the owner of the d: volume,
but I'm not sure. Also, in the hours before my d: drive
disappeared my computer was working extremely slowly with
strange disk noises and I got several blue screens of
death, which makes me think my computer is just dying
(Compaq Presario about 700 MHZ). I also ran Norton anti-
virus not long before the problem occurred, so I am
presuming it's not a virus.

Anyone have any ideas about how to fix this?

Many thanks in advance.

Ray

Check to see what Disk Management has to say about it. Download a diagnostic
utility from the drive manufacturer's web site to test the integrity of your
drive. As a local administrator you can take ownership of the drive. To be
able to see the blue screen stop message; Control
Panel|System|Advanced|Startup and Recovery, I usually like to uncheck
"Automatically reboot" this way you get a chance to read the stop error.

Bug Check Codes
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...d0ddbf.xml.asp


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"Ray" wrote:
| I'm wondering if anyone can help me with the following
| problem:
|
| When I try to open my D: drive I get the following message:
|
| D:\ is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect.
|
| Running chkdsk in safe mode gives no error messages for
| the file check (which leads me to believe the files are
| still there) but then when it checks the Usn journal it
| stops with the following message:
|
| Insufficient disk space to fix the Usn Journal $J data
| stream
|
| On my C: drive I have about 2 GB free disk space but I
| presume the disk space problem is on the d: drive which I
| can't access to remove files. But in any case before this
| problem it had at least 1 GB, maybe 2 GB of free disk
| space.
|
| Other information: I'm running Windows 2000 Professional
| on a notebook. I have one physical drive. D: is
| partitioned. The C: drive works fine. For the D: drive,
| when I click on Properties, General there is no label and
| file system is unknown; under Tools neither Error-checking
| nor Defragmentation work; Hardware reports that the
| physical drive is working properly; and there is no
| Security tab.
|
| Before this problem occurred I changed the security
| settings for one folder on this drive. I also removed one
| of the users of the computer. On reflection it occurs to
| me that perhaps this user was the owner of the d: volume,
| but I'm not sure. Also, in the hours before my d: drive
| disappeared my computer was working extremely slowly with
| strange disk noises and I got several blue screens of
| death, which makes me think my computer is just dying
| (Compaq Presario about 700 MHZ). I also ran Norton anti-
| virus not long before the problem occurred, so I am
| presuming it's not a virus.
|
| Anyone have any ideas about how to fix this?
|
| Many thanks in advance.
|
| Ray