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Re: It was easier when I thought a hard drive was a bad road trip!
Posted By: teach, on host 209.226.89.71
Date: Saturday, June 4, 2005, at 23:09:30
In Reply To: Re: It was easier when I thought a hard drive was a bad road trip! posted by Howard on Monday, May 30, 2005, at 14:06:51:

> > > Well, you can at least see the non-secure part, so Windows knows that you have the device plugged in (I presume).
> > >
> > > It's not a driver issue, I'd imagine, because the website seems to think it's all plug n play.
> > >
> > > Did you put in any sort of password? If not it's possible that the drive has defaulted to a *blank* password and you may need to use whatever interface it presents to get back to the partition. Although how you do it if Windows refuses to acknowledge its presence is beyond me...
> > >
> > > If anyone you know has XP, ask them if you can plug it in. A fresh machine might interpret it correctly. I would say try mapping a drive letter to it manually, but it needs a share name for that to work.
> > >
> > > So I'm fresh out of ideas. Sorry.
> > >
> > > Beasty
> >
> > Well, at least I tried logical things.
> >
> > The only other XP machine I have access to runs from the same server as mine, which may be why it didn't work. I'll see if there's one at my husband's office.
> >
> > The aggravating thing is, I bought a 128 Mb one because my 64 Mb one was too small for some applications. Now I've taken my 128 Mb, divided it in half, and created . . . another 64 Mb one!
> >
> > Sometimes I admire the Luddites.
> >
> > te "smash those looms" ach
>
> Well, I feel a lot better knowing that other people have problems like that. Naturally, I can't help, but it's nice to know that I'm not alone. One thing for sure; you came to the right place for help. RinkWorks is the best tech support on the web.
> Howard


You bet it is - I found another machine, and there was my program!

I now have my full space - no more divvying up drives for me.

Thanks Beasty, for the help, and Howard for the commiseration.

teach

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