Comments on: Can’t open your drive by double clicking on it? http://www.computer-realm.net/cant-open-your-drive-by-double-clicking/ Hardware, Software, The Internet, Tips, Reviews, Making Money Online and More Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:56:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Denny http://www.computer-realm.net/cant-open-your-drive-by-double-clicking/comment-page-1/#comment-11552 Denny Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:49:58 +0000 http://computer-realm.net/?p=18#comment-11552 One of my critical hard drives has a major problem. After the machine locked up, I had to power off with Windows still running. Now, when it comes up, it won't complete booting IF this drive is connected. I have to disconnect it until Windows boots, then connect it (it is hot-swappable). After it is connected, the hard drive light stays on solid for several minutes. After it finally goes off, the drive is not accessable. It have a drive letter, but when I connect on it, it shows nothing. I was able to use a recovery program to copy most files to a good drive. I then did WDC diagnostics and it "fixed" several bad sectors. Any suggestions on fixing the drive so I don't loose the data that I couldn't recover already? Norton Disk Doctor won't even see the drive. Again, the recover program got a lot of stuff off of it. That makes me think that the FAT and pointers have a problem. Regards, Denny. One of my critical hard drives has a major problem. After the machine locked up, I had to power off with Windows still running. Now, when it comes up, it won’t complete booting IF this drive is connected. I have to disconnect it until Windows boots, then connect it (it is hot-swappable).

After it is connected, the hard drive light stays on solid for several minutes. After it finally goes off, the drive is not accessable. It have a drive letter, but when I connect on it, it shows nothing. I was able to use a recovery program to copy most files to a good drive. I then did WDC diagnostics and it “fixed” several bad sectors.

Any suggestions on fixing the drive so I don’t loose the data that I couldn’t recover already? Norton Disk Doctor won’t even see the drive. Again, the recover program got a lot of stuff off of it. That makes me think that the FAT and pointers have a problem.

Regards, Denny.

]]> By: Allan @ MyPageofManyThings http://www.computer-realm.net/cant-open-your-drive-by-double-clicking/comment-page-1/#comment-742 Allan @ MyPageofManyThings Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:41:32 +0000 http://computer-realm.net/?p=18#comment-742 Hmm .. so I have a virus you say ? That's some seriously bad news. It would have been helpfull if you posted the actual name of the virus though ... I'll tty this heal thing to see if it helps at all with my many problems this PC seems to be having !!! thanks in advance if it work ... Hmm .. so I have a virus you say ? That’s some seriously bad news. It would have been helpfull if you posted the actual name of the virus though …
I’ll tty this heal thing to see if it helps at all with my many problems this PC seems to be having !!!
thanks in advance if it work …

]]> By: david solomon http://www.computer-realm.net/cant-open-your-drive-by-double-clicking/comment-page-1/#comment-661 david solomon Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:56:29 +0000 http://computer-realm.net/?p=18#comment-661 Thanks for the suggestion....I was fed up finding ways to get this problem fixed Thanks again ! Thanks for the suggestion….I was fed up finding ways to get this problem fixed
Thanks again !

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