Some how stupid me got into the device manager and disabled my HD.
What can I do to get it re-enabled? When I put in the Win 2k CD the
drive is not seen. I am on an IBM Thinkpad from about 1999.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Some how stupid me got into the device manager and disabled my HD.
> What can I do to get it re-enabled? When I put in the Win 2k CD the
> drive is not seen. I am on an IBM Thinkpad from about 1999.

Have you tried going in under safe mode and renabling?

--
Steve Parry BA(Hons) MCP

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

Steve Parry wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> > Some how stupid me got into the device manager and disabled my HD.
> > What can I do to get it re-enabled? When I put in the Win 2k CD the
> > drive is not seen. I am on an IBM Thinkpad from about 1999.
>
> Have you tried going in under safe mode and renabling?
>
> --
> Steve Parry BA(Hons) MCP
>
> http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

How do I get to safe mode with the CD?

> How do I get to safe mode with the CD?

On startup, watch for "For troubleshooting and advanced startup options
for Windows 2000, press F8" From the resulting menu, select Safe Mode.

Tracey wrote:
> > How do I get to safe mode with the CD?
>
> On startup, watch for "For troubleshooting and advanced startup options
> for Windows 2000, press F8" From the resulting menu, select Safe Mode.

This is what I get!

the CD loads a bunch of files.
Then I get a screen that says: "Welcome to Setup"
"This portion of the setup program prepares Microsoft Windows 2000 to
run on your computer"

Then 3 choices:
1) To set up windows 2000 now press "ENTER"
2) To repair a windows installation press "R"
3) To quit press "F3"

When I press "R" I get that a hard drive was not found!

Do I do (1) above? I am leary of that!

wmcne...@gmail.com wrote:
> Tracey wrote:
> > > How do I get to safe mode with the CD?
> >
> > On startup, watch for "For troubleshooting and advanced startup options
> > for Windows 2000, press F8" From the resulting menu, select Safe Mode.
>
> This is what I get!
>
> the CD loads a bunch of files.
> Then I get a screen that says: "Welcome to Setup"
> "This portion of the setup program prepares Microsoft Windows 2000 to
> run on your computer"
>
> Then 3 choices:
> 1) To set up windows 2000 now press "ENTER"
> 2) To repair a windows installation press "R"
> 3) To quit press "F3"
>
> When I press "R" I get that a hard drive was not found!
>
> Do I do (1) above? I am leary of that!

Actually I get the same message regardless of what I press!

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> wmcne...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Tracey wrote:
>>>> How do I get to safe mode with the CD?
>>>
>>> On startup, watch for "For troubleshooting and advanced startup options
>>> for Windows 2000, press F8" From the resulting menu, select Safe Mode.
>>
>> This is what I get!
>>
>> the CD loads a bunch of files.
>> Then I get a screen that says: "Welcome to Setup"
>> "This portion of the setup program prepares Microsoft Windows 2000 to
>> run on your computer"
>>
>> Then 3 choices:
>> 1) To set up windows 2000 now press "ENTER"
>> 2) To repair a windows installation press "R"
>> 3) To quit press "F3"
>>
>> When I press "R" I get that a hard drive was not found!
>>
>> Do I do (1) above? I am leary of that!
>
> Actually I get the same message regardless of what I press!

boot up without the cd and press F8 as detailed above.

Are you 100% sure the drive has'nt failed?

--
Steve Parry BA(Hons) MCP

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

Steve Parry wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> > wmcne...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> Tracey wrote:
> >>>> How do I get to safe mode with the CD?
> >>>
> >>> On startup, watch for "For troubleshooting and advanced startup options
> >>> for Windows 2000, press F8" From the resulting menu, select Safe Mode.
> >>
> >> This is what I get!
> >>
> >> the CD loads a bunch of files.
> >> Then I get a screen that says: "Welcome to Setup"
> >> "This portion of the setup program prepares Microsoft Windows 2000 to
> >> run on your computer"
> >>
> >> Then 3 choices:
> >> 1) To set up windows 2000 now press "ENTER"
> >> 2) To repair a windows installation press "R"
> >> 3) To quit press "F3"
> >>
> >> When I press "R" I get that a hard drive was not found!
> >>
> >> Do I do (1) above? I am leary of that!
> >
> > Actually I get the same message regardless of what I press!
>
> boot up without the cd and press F8 as detailed above.
>
> Are you 100% sure the drive has'nt failed?
>
> --
> Steve Parry BA(Hons) MCP
>
> http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

Well it was working just fine until I did the disable thing in the
device manager.

I did the F8 thing and got a diagnostic window and ran the test and
everything was marked "OK" except the HDD1 and HDD2.

Could I possibly get to this by plugging in an external HD and booting
with it and then getting to the device manager and re-enabling the
internal drive?

By the way thanks for the help Steve and Tracy

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Well it was working just fine until I did the disable thing in the
> device manager.
>
> I did the F8 thing and got a diagnostic window and ran the test and
> everything was marked "OK" except the HDD1 and HDD2.
>
> Could I possibly get to this by plugging in an external HD and booting
> with it and then getting to the device manager and re-enabling the
> internal drive?

I fell sure there must be a reason why no one else has suggested this
but fwiw:

Can't you recover by simply pressing F8 at bootup and booting to "Last
Known Good" ?

Sid Knee wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> > Well it was working just fine until I did the disable thing in the
> > device manager.
> >
> > I did the F8 thing and got a diagnostic window and ran the test and
> > everything was marked "OK" except the HDD1 and HDD2.
> >
> > Could I possibly get to this by plugging in an external HD and booting
> > with it and then getting to the device manager and re-enabling the
> > internal drive?
>
> I fell sure there must be a reason why no one else has suggested this
> but fwiw:
>
> Can't you recover by simply pressing F8 at bootup and booting to "Last
> Known Good" ?

Sid,

I tried that but the computer sees no hard drive so it cannot even do
that!
So I was hoping that some one would confirm that I could use the USB
port and boot frpo an external drive there and get at it that way.