HDD Constantly Locked

[Guest]

Hi All,
I recently had to upgrade my hardware inside my case (Except for the
HDD's) and I have re-used my HDD's. Naturally when Win XP Pro booted up, it
asked for the drivers for the new hardware, etc which I fed it.

I now have an extended logical partition on one of my HDD's that is
inaccessable. (The drive letter is there, but no access is granted to the
drive) I've even tried to format it and windows refused. When I try to use
the tools (Via Properties > tools Tab) nothing works. I don't get an error
message or the option to run it the next time windows starts. When I double
click I get G:\is not accessable. A HDD icon is used for this drive letter.

If I go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer
Management > Disk Management the drive shows up as Healthy and that it is a
Logical Drive. The only thing that I haven't tried is to delete the partition
and then re-create the partition as I'm trying not to loose some of the data
on it.

Thanks for your time.

 

[smlunatick]

Hi All,
I recently had to upgrade my hardware inside my case (Except for the
HDD's) and I have re-used my HDD's. Naturally when Win XP Pro booted up, it
asked for the drivers for the new hardware, etc which I fed it.

I now have an extended logical partition on one of my HDD's that is
inaccessable. (The drive letter is there, but no access is granted to the
drive) I've even tried to format it and windows refused. When I try to use
the tools (Via Properties > tools Tab) nothing works. I don't get an error
message or the option to run it the next time windows starts. When I double
click I get G:\is not accessable. A HDD icon is used for this drive letter.

If I go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer
Management > Disk Management the drive shows up as Healthy and that it is a
Logical Drive. The only thing that I haven't tried is to delete the partition
and then re-create the partition as I'm trying not to loose some of the data
on it.

Thanks for your time.

If part of your hardward upgrades included replacing the motherboard,
unless the new motherboard is 100% the same, you may need to do a
repair reinstall of XP on top of the installed version. XP uses
several motherboard "components" to build its product activation
"logic."

 

[Guest]

If part of your hardward upgrades included replacing the motherboard,
unless the new motherboard is 100% the same, you may need to do a
repair reinstall of XP on top of the installed version. XP uses
several motherboard "components" to build its product activation
"logic."

Hi smlunatick.
Yes, I had to do this to get the OS to boot without crashing.

 

[Guest]

Does anyone else have any suggestions?