USB hard disk access.

[RON]

I tried the KB without success, so.....
I had a corrupted registry, and had to format and re-install XP Pro.
Before I formated I was able to save (I thought) a bunch of fairly important
"stuff" on a portable (160 GB) USB hard drive, at that time drive "M".
After re-installing XP and all my programs from a seperrate hard drive
(Norton Ghost), I tried to access the info on the portable USB drive "M".
I can't seem get there from here!!! How do I get at the information on the
now USB drive "G" ???
Thanks, Ron

 

[Unknown]

Have you tried changing the drive designation from G to M?

 

[smlunatick]

I tried the KB without success, so.....
I had a corrupted registry, and had to format and re-install XP Pro.
Before I formated I was able to save (I thought) a bunch of fairly important
"stuff" on a portable (160 GB) USB hard drive, at that time drive "M".
After re-installing XP and all my programs from a seperrate hard drive
(Norton Ghost), I tried to access the info on the portable USB drive "M".
I can't seem get there from here!!! How do I get at the information on the
now USB drive "G" ???
Thanks, Ron

How was this "save" done?

What do you see on the USB drive?

 

[RON]

How was this "save" done?
I clicked on a folder copied it and sent it and it's contents to drive "M".
or I picked it up and dragged it over to the drive "M".
Then I went and checked on drive "M" and saw that the folder and it's
contents were in fact on drive "M"

What do you see on the USB drive?

I can't access the USB drive, seems to lock up.

Ron

 

[v2win]

When you try to access the G: drive, do you get a permissions error? Was the
"rebuild" of your machine done by pushing a Ghost image to it? Was drive M:
formatted as NTFS, or FAT32? Can you take ownership of the drive through the
Security properties?

 

[RON]

HI.
I get no eror message at all. The drive comes up in "my computer", if I
highlight that drive and try to "explore" the dialog box freezes up and I
have to disconnect the drive to get out.
I've tried to get at it through "device manager" same thing happens as soon
as i hit a tab or two in device manager to try and find info or something to
do it freezes up again
The "rebuild" was done by formating my "C" drive and re-installing XP pro,
then installing Norton Ghost, then having Ghost copy and deposit all of my
"stuff" that I had saved in the ghost backucp on my "F" drive back on to the
"C" drive that now had only XP on it.
Formated as a fat32
I tried "saving" a copy of the USB dick back to "C".--- everything that had
anything to do on screen with the "G" USB drive froze up, had to unplug the
USB drive and clear off all the dead windows.
Ron

 

[v2win]

Can you see the G: drive in safe mode and explore it from there?

 

[smlunatick]

HI.
I get no eror message at all. The drive comes up in "my computer", if I
highlight that drive and try to "explore" the dialog box freezes up and I
have to disconnect the drive to get out.
I've tried to get at it through "device manager" same thing happens as soon
as i hit a tab or two in device manager to try and find info or something to
do it freezes up again
The "rebuild" was done by formating my "C" drive and re-installing XP pro,
then installing Norton Ghost, then having Ghost copy and deposit all of my
"stuff" that I had saved in the ghost backucp on my "F" drive back on to the
"C" drive that now had only XP on it.
Formated as a fat32
I tried "saving" a copy of the USB dick back to "C".--- everything that had
anything to do on screen with the "G" USB drive froze up, had to unplug the
USB drive and clear off all the dead windows.
Ron





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Did you re-install the required motherboard chipset drivers?