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When I left to go to work, my HP 734n WinXP Pro SP3 computer worked just
fine. When I came home from work, I tried to bring the computer out of
standby the usual way, by tapping a key on the keyboard. Nothing happened.
The computer would not come out of standby or respond in any other way to
tapping a key or any combination keys such as ctrl-alt-delete. I had to hit
the switch to turn the computer off and then again to turn it on to get the
thing to boot.
Now, I have an external (Maxtor) hard drive that is partitioned into 2
drives H and I. After the boot, I ran Norton Ghost which reported that the H
drive, which was being used for backup, was 'unavailable'. I then brought up
Windows Explorer to discover that neither partition appeared in the folder
tree or anywhere else. For all practical purposes, the drive(s) doesn't
(don't) exist!
I tried System Restore, reinstalling the drivers for the (Maxtor) drive,
uninstalling Norton Ghost and again reinstalling the Maxtor drivers. Nothing
worked. Although
the operating system acknowledged the installation of new hardware via the
system tray bubble and the gong, the drives were still not visible in WE or
to Ghost.
Also I should mention that before I left for work, there were some Microsoft
updates pending, which I ignored and which evidently installed themselves
while I was gone. Perhaps these updates are the culprits.
Any ideas out there how to fix? Is my drive probably kaput or what?
fine. When I came home from work, I tried to bring the computer out of
standby the usual way, by tapping a key on the keyboard. Nothing happened.
The computer would not come out of standby or respond in any other way to
tapping a key or any combination keys such as ctrl-alt-delete. I had to hit
the switch to turn the computer off and then again to turn it on to get the
thing to boot.
Now, I have an external (Maxtor) hard drive that is partitioned into 2
drives H and I. After the boot, I ran Norton Ghost which reported that the H
drive, which was being used for backup, was 'unavailable'. I then brought up
Windows Explorer to discover that neither partition appeared in the folder
tree or anywhere else. For all practical purposes, the drive(s) doesn't
(don't) exist!
I tried System Restore, reinstalling the drivers for the (Maxtor) drive,
uninstalling Norton Ghost and again reinstalling the Maxtor drivers. Nothing
worked. Although
the operating system acknowledged the installation of new hardware via the
system tray bubble and the gong, the drives were still not visible in WE or
to Ghost.
Also I should mention that before I left for work, there were some Microsoft
updates pending, which I ignored and which evidently installed themselves
while I was gone. Perhaps these updates are the culprits.
Any ideas out there how to fix? Is my drive probably kaput or what?