Although you may have used the same user name as you had before, it is
not the same account and Win XP knows it. You now have to Take
Ownership of the files and folders on the drive D:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...308421&sd=tech
You must be logged on to the computer with an account that has
administrative credentials. If you are running Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition, you must start the computer in safe mode, and then log
on with an account that has Administrative rights to have access to
the Security tab.
"Christoph Boget" <jcboget@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:e6BF8onCGHA.3984@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
|I just had to reinstall WinXP and I'm having a problem with one of my
HD's.
| I have 2 HDs, one primary and one slaved off that primary. The
install went
| w/o a hitch but now, for some reason, XP can't explore to my slave
drive.
| If I open up 'Computer Management' and navigate to Storage -> Disk
| Management, I see that both my HDs and both my CD drives (one a DVD
drive
| and one a CD-RW drive) are showing. In the top part of the
dialogue, I see
|
| Volume Layout Type File System Status
| (C
Partition Basic NTFS Healthy
(System)
| Chaos* Partition Basic NTFS Healthy
(System)
|
| * The label I gave to my slave HD
|
| In the bottom part, I see:
|
| Disk 0 (C
| Basic 37.25 GB NTFS
| 37.25 GB Healthy (System)
| Online
|
| Disk 1 Chaos
| Basic 27.95 GB NTFS
| 27.95 GB Healthy (Active)
|
| CD-ROM 0
| DVD (E
| No Media
|
| CD-ROM 1
| CD-ROM (F
| No Media
|
| Originally, the CD drives had different drive letters and I changed
them to
| the above.
|
| So I'm curious, if Disk Management can see my secondary/slave HD,
why can't
| Windows Exlorer or 'My Computer'? Is there something else I need to
do to
| get it so I can explore to it? I really don't want to format it as
I backed
| up all my old settings onto that drive. Before I reinstalled XP, I
had no
| problems accessing that drive...
|
| My desktop is a Dell PowerEdge 400SC. In Device Manager, the only
items
| that have a yellow question mark next to them are the following:
|
| Multimedia Audio Controller
| Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller
|
| I'm having difficulty finding the drivers for those devices and so
that's
| why they haven't been installed yet. Nevertheless, neither should
be
| causing problems with XP being able to explore to my secondary HD.
|
| Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
|
| thnx,
| Christoph
|
|