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Hardrive problem in windows XP

by Bigboshbad Apr 25, 2004 10:03PM PDT

Ok this is weird and annoying any help would be appreciated.

Running win XP home SP1 on a new comp
P4 2.8 .
Everythin was working fine for the first 2 weeks. Then one day I go into my comp and (C:/ hardrive)
(a 120Gb Seagate Sata drive) no longer has a little HD icon as it used to but rather that ugly little icon for unrecogised file types.
When i try to click the drive to access it win XP tells me "Please go to the control panel to install and configure system components".
The drive is working apart from this little annoyance all programs on the disk run and all files can be read i just have to change to expanded view and click a subfolder on C:/ and things go fine.
As long i dont try clicking on C:/ HD in explorer. Explorer is convinced i dont have a HD ! !

So i go into device manager the HD is there
under disk drives and its 'properties' tab says device is working fine.

I try uninstalling The hardware from device manager and reistalling. Windows detects and reinstall the HD correctly only the problem is still there ! !

Anyone know whats wrong, or how to fix it? I would be really grateful if you could tell me.

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Re:Hardrive problem in windows XP

by JMarchi Apr 25, 2004 10:18PM PDT

You give us no info about the system this is in. Did you build it yourself? did you install the Motherboard drives so the IDE/SATA controllers can be correctly configured?

What does it show in device manager for the controllers?

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