Windows Explorer locks when accessing my D & E drive

[Mike Portwood]

Hi,
I'm running WinXP with 2 120gig HDD, configured as "Basic"
drives, Drive 0 is partitioned into a boot C-drive and a
data D-drive; Drive 1 is a single partition data drive.

This is a new install, and I used windows explorer (I favor
WE's UI) to access these drives. C-drive opens fine.
D and E-drive opened fine until the following occured:

This PC was given to a new user. I wanted to xfer data
folders from her 2 old IDE drives onto the new ones in the
XP machine

Right off the bat, the XP machine had problems even seeing
these drives when I connected them one at a time to the
secondary IDE channel of the machine (Dell 340) These
drives were originaly installed in her machine on a Promise
Ultra 133 x2 IDE controller and configured as "simple
dynamic" drives (why I dont know, since they were both
single partition drives)

I got one drive to eventually "import" into WinXP using the
control panel disk manager, and copied the files to the new
machine using My Computer. The second drive (same model)
didnt offer an import option, it just showed up and I
copied it too with My computer (it took a couple reboots
and luck before it showed up in My Computer even). WE could
not "see" either of them during the transfers. Neither of
the "old" drives were kept in the new machine.

After the file copy, WE would not open either D or E drive,
it just hung up with the hourglass. You have to click the X
box and then it presents the "end now, program not
responding" window. C-drive still opens fine with WE. Only
My Computer will open D or E.

Anyone know whats up with WinXP's WE in this case?
If there is a fix or even a logical reason why this is
happening, other than going back to W2k? Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Mike

 

[Walter Clayton]

A bit more information is needed. I suspect I know what the problem is but
I'm having to make a ton of unconfirmed assumptions. And frankly I'm
surprised you got as far as you did if I'm correct.

Was the Promise controller running in a RAID configuration? If the "old" OS
was an NT kernel as you sort of implied, was it running the drives in RAID
mode?

You may have to reattach the drives to the "old" machine to determine these,
but from a number of things implied I suspect the problem does revolve
around the "old" drives were in a RAID configuration. If so, you're going to
have to start over and take a completely different approach to transferring
the data.

--
Walter Clayton - MS MVP(WinXP)
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
http://www.dts-l.org
http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/fileversion/default.asp

 

[Walter Clayton]

Sounds like you don't have ready access to the machine. :-/

OK. There are other possibilities. First however, My Computer uses sits on
top of Windows Explorer. It's just a different view.

We'll ignore the "old" configuration and concentrate on what's on hand. What
kind of AV was installed? Is there an autorun.inf on the root of either of
the new volumes? What kind of view is being used (detail, thumbnail, etc.)?

--
Walter Clayton - MS MVP(WinXP)
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
http://www.dts-l.org
http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/fileversion/default.asp