In my WinXP SP2 machine, I have 2 30GB drives. Pretty simple really...
1 is my OS drive (C and the other is a DATA drive (D.

Quite suddenly, the D: drive became "unaccessible". Through Windows
Explorer, the drive is listed at "D: Local Drive" (even though it
should be labeled "DATA"), and if i click on it I get an error that
"D:/ Drive not Accessible". If i right-click, go to properties, there
is no info listed about the drive and the drive type is listed as
"RAW". In Disk Management, however, the drive shows up as healthy with
~6GB free. I opened up Partition Magic just to see what it thought,
and it also sees the drive as if its good, with the correct label and
the right about of used/free space.

So I took a Ghost image of the drive (over the network) and used Ghost
Explorer to view the contents of the image. All 22GB of my data is
right there! Why can't XP see this anymore?

I should also note that originally the two 30GB drives were in a 60GB
RAID0 set, with two 30GB partitions for C: and D:. I've since ghosted
both partitions, blown away the the RAID set, and restored the images
directly to each disk (no RAID). I'm seeing the exact same
issue...this tells me somethings messed up with XP or maybe that D:
partition.

Please help!

jdm wrote:

> In my WinXP SP2 machine,

This is NOT a "chat room" - wait for replies to your previous post.

On Mar 29, 9:00 am, Gordon <gbpli...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
> jdm wrote:
> > In my WinXP SP2 machine,
>
> This is NOT a "chat room" - wait for replies to your previous post.

That was an accident...created by going back too far in my browser
history.

On Mar 29, 8:00 am, Gordon <gbpli...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
> jdm wrote:
> > In my WinXP SP2 machine,
>
> This is NOT a "chat room" - wait for replies to your previous post.

Gordon, dude, it was the same post twice. Obviousely an accident.
You just made this a chatroom by responding.

Robert Jacobs wrote:


>
> Gordon, dude, it was the same post twice. Obviousely an accident.

Not obviously an accident at all, especially given the time difference
between the two. if they had been seconds apart, then yes it quite probably
WOULD have been an accident. We quite often get second posts of the same
question in here because the OP thinks they ought to get a reply instantly.

> You just made this a chatroom by responding.

Not at all. A lesson in "Netiquette".

On Mar 29, 8:12 am, "jdm" <jdmclem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 29, 9:00 am, Gordon <gbpli...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> > jdm wrote:
> > > In my WinXP SP2 machine,
>
> > This is NOT a "chat room" - wait for replies to your previous post.
>
> That was an accident...created by going back too far in my browser
> history.

When you right click on it in Disk Management, does it give you the
option of importing the drive or assigning it a letter? If not, I
guess you could try deleting all your hard drives in device manager
and reboot, they should all then be detected and have drive letters
assigned by the OS upon startup. Just one route you could take.

On Mar 29, 8:26 am, Gordon <gbpli...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
> Robert Jacobs wrote:
>
> > Gordon, dude, it was the same post twice. Obviousely an accident.
>
> Not obviously an accident at all, especially given the time difference
> between the two. if they had been seconds apart, then yes it quite probably
> WOULD have been an accident. We quite often get second posts of the same
> question in here because the OP thinks they ought to get a reply instantly.
>
> > You just made this a chatroom by responding.
>
> Not at all. A lesson in "Netiquette".

I like "Netiquette". I haven't heard of it before. Point taken, and
thanks for the lesson in netiquette.

Robert Jacobs wrote:

> On Mar 29, 8:26 am, Gordon <gbpli...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>> Robert Jacobs wrote:
>>
>> > Gordon, dude, it was the same post twice. Obviousely an accident.
>>
>> Not obviously an accident at all, especially given the time difference
>> between the two. if they had been seconds apart, then yes it quite
>> probably WOULD have been an accident. We quite often get second posts of
>> the same question in here because the OP thinks they ought to get a reply
>> instantly.
>>
>> > You just made this a chatroom by responding.
>>
>> Not at all. A lesson in "Netiquette".
>
> I like "Netiquette". I haven't heard of it before. Point taken, and
> thanks for the lesson in netiquette.

It's just that some regulars here get a bit annoyed when it looks as if
someone is posting as if they are DEMANDING an answer - I suppose even if
there was a FAQ for these groups you'd always get some people who wouldn't
read it...and also the majority of people who use the web interface don't
realise that they are actually posting to an international news group, not
a "forum"....

"Gordon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Robert Jacobs wrote:
>
>> On Mar 29, 8:26 am, Gordon <gbpli...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>> Robert Jacobs wrote:
>>>
>>> > Gordon, dude, it was the same post twice. Obviousely an accident.
>>>
>>> Not obviously an accident at all, especially given the time difference
>>> between the two. if they had been seconds apart, then yes it quite
>>> probably WOULD have been an accident. We quite often get second posts of
>>> the same question in here because the OP thinks they ought to get a
>>> reply
>>> instantly.
>>>
>>> > You just made this a chatroom by responding.
>>>
>>> Not at all. A lesson in "Netiquette".
>>
>> I like "Netiquette". I haven't heard of it before. Point taken, and
>> thanks for the lesson in netiquette.
>
> It's just that some regulars here get a bit annoyed when it looks as if
> someone is posting as if they are DEMANDING an answer - I suppose even if
> there was a FAQ for these groups you'd always get some people who wouldn't
> read it...and also the majority of people who use the web interface don't
> realise that they are actually posting to an international news group, not
> a "forum"....

and you are the teacher of the world that is going to correct them right???
What do you get from this? Besides looking like you have something shoved
to far up that needs to be pulled out :-)

On Mar 29, 9:35 am, "Robert Jacobs" <robertjacob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 29, 8:12 am, "jdm" <jdmclem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 29, 9:00 am, Gordon <gbpli...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

> When you right click on it in Disk Management, does it give you the
> option of importing the drive or assigning it a letter? If not, I
> guess you could try deleting all your hard drives in device manager
> and reboot, they should all then be detected and have drive letters
> assigned by the OS upon startup. Just one route you could take.

Yes, I do have the option, and can successfully change the drive
letter. Not sure about importing...

I'll give that a shot....thanks.