External USB 2 drive not accessible after upgrade from 2000 to XP

[Guest]

I upgraded from windows 2000 on a fat32 partition and did a clean install of
xp upgraded to a NTFS partition. Now i cannot access my external hard drive.
Disk management shows all the pertinent info on the drive and shows it as
healthy. It shows up in device manager and explorer and shows as working and
online but when i click on the drive in explorer it says "I:/ drive not
accessible" "Access denied". I need to get into this drive as it holds all my
clients work. Please help.

 

[Guest]

Boot the system in safe mode and try to access the drive, if the issue still
persist update your XP to SP2, here is the link how to do it

http://win-xp-sp.blogspot.com/2004/09/installing-windows-xp-service-pack-2.html

Raj
http://win-xp-sp.blogspot.com

 

[namniar]

This might be applicable.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

r.

 

[Guest]

Thanks so much. This solved my problem. Really appreciate it. Have spend
hours on the net trying to solve this one. Once again thank you very much.

 

[namniar]

Your welcome.

r.

Thanks so much. This solved my problem. Really appreciate it. Have spend
hours on the net trying to solve this one. Once again thank you very much.