One of my HD's finally quit showing up.

[Guest]

I hope I've hit the right place for this discussion, here's a copy paste of
my woes...

This is a 120 GB internal HD FAT32. The other 4 HD's that still work are NTFS
formated and doing fine. How can I get this FAT32 drive to working under IE7?
HP sent me a fix/patch in order to get my HP scanner to working again. Is
there a fix for IE7 to recognize this HD that finally quit showing up? Fixdsk
used to make it work but it finally quit trying to repair the HD to be seen
by IE7 or Explorer.

This is the 3rd time I've installed IE7. I know IE7 has its problems but the
good points may outweigh the bad points. The 1st time I installed IE7 a lot
of goodies on my computer went boink. I used recover to an earlier date.
Fine, then, my automatic updates, (I thought I'd made it clear not to install
IE7 in my auto updates), re-installed IE7 without my knowledge, (I should
have done the custom install bit). It called for a system re-boot. I was
never able to get back into windows again and I couldn’t even boot into safe
mode to do an earlier recovery. I had to start from scratch with OEM only.
What a bummer. Before re-installing all my software/hardware I was determined
to get IE7 to work. Welllll, I got it to work and able to boot into windows
again. Then, my scanner program wouldn’t work. HP finally sent me a fix to
get it to working in the IE7 environment. Then this FAT 32 drive started
having problems and every re-boot the fxdisk would come up while in DOS mode
and repair the HD and it began working. After several re-boots fxdisk stopped
trying to fix this HD and I no longer had access or could even see it using
My Computer prog. I hate to go back to 6X and will do it as a last resort.
I’d really like to find a fix for this problem and will give Microsoft all
the opportunity to find a fix for this and any other probs IE7 may have.
Soooo many hackers out there that would love to have the opportunity to wreck
peoples lives and computer files.

It’s my hope that some day there’ll be a program that will recognize a
hacker and a virus/Trojan and immediately block and destroy the confines of
the asinine’s computer who is in the process of uploading anything that is
harmful to computer users throughout this tiny little planet.

I do appreciate your input and I hate to stay here in the middle of IE7’s
problems but I really have very little choice. As you know, the first thing a
hacker learns how to do is hack Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. I for
one would like to see this come to an end.

Maybe someone here can help.

 

[Dave B.]

IE7 likely has nothing to do with the problem. Is the drive showing up in
the BIOS, have you run the mfg's diagnostics on the drive?
The constant chkdsk's before it died should have been a clue that there was
a problem.

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[Dave B.]

Sounds like the drive is dead. USB drives won't show up in BIOS under the
drives section, that's for internal drives only usually.

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Dave;

I run the diognistics and it didn't show up there. I went into the BIOS
all
it showed there was the master and one slave. There should have been a
secondary slave. I took one of my CD's players out of a slot in the tower
and
installed the 2nd HD. This would be 3 HD's including C, my boot drive in
the
computer tower. The other two HD's are from USB ports, they didn't show up
in
the BIOS but did in diog. I shut my computer down and unplugged and
re-plugged the two extra HD's in hoping that the connection was faulty.
Still
not working. I suppose my next step is to get an external USB box that
will
hold an internal HD. I sure hate to loose 120 GB of storage.

I no longer think it's IE7's problem with that HD. Thanks for the info.
When
I get the money I'll buy a USB box or two and probably another HD or two.

Great help here.

 

[Dave B.]

Just keep in mind it also reduces their performance as opposed to them being
on the IDE or SATA controller directly.

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[Guest]

I'll have to check that out. Maybe I'll put an extension on the ribbon wire
so it can set along side of the others outside the unit.