Re: One of my HD's finally quit showing up.

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"Travisab1" <Travisab1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Dave;

I'm thinking about putting all extra HD's on USB ports. Makes them easier
to
turn on and off and to work on.
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Thanks folks,
Travis


"Dave B." wrote:

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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"Travisab1" <Travisab1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.
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Travis


"Dave B." wrote:

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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"Travisab1" <Travisab1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.
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Thanks folks,
Travis








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