Re: HDD ( scsi ) vanished from explorer..

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From: kumsan (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/17/04 

Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 02:07:21 -0700

Hi there...thanx a lot..

No it's not showing in the location as you told.

But it's listing in device manager -- disk drive list (
right pane window. )

Any clues..pls. help.

Regards,
-Kumsan.
>-----Original Message-----
>
>"kumsan72@yahoo.com"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>news:c80201c438db$3a1bf300$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> We have a win 2k server. Running with 4 scsi HDD.
>> HDD0,HDD1
>> ( operating system residing here.) HDD2 and HDD3 and all
>> are hot swapable.
>>
>> y'day suddenly HDD3 vanished from windows explorer.
>>
>> But I rebooted and checked, it's detecting and listing.
>>
>> Checked system log too it shows..
>>
>> 1.the driver detected a controller error
>> on\device\harddisk3\dr3
>>
>> 2. the device \device\harddisk3\dr3 has a bad block.
>>
>> can some body tell me what's the problem ???
>>
>> Still the HDD is not listing in explorer. How to trouble
>> shoot this ???
>>
>> Thanx in advance.
>> -kumsan
>
>Your log entry is a good clue. Windows apparently
detected a bad block on
>the hard drive. Whether this was during a CHKDSK or
during the OS writing
>data to the block, may help us find the answer. CHKDSK
may very well have
>marked a bad block in the Master File Table for the
drive. If this
>happened, then your files and partition still exist but
Windows doesn't know
>where to find them because the table is destroyed.
>
>Try this:
>
>Right-click My Computer, click Manage
>Under Storage, choose Disk Management
>See if the disk is listed in the bottom-right pane of
this window. If it
>is, then see if your partitions still exist. Having this
information will
>help get to the root of your problem.
>
>
>.
>

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