Harddrive Problem

[21Outlaw]

I can't access my harddisk.

1. My Computer sees the drive and has it listed as G:
2. BIOS recognizes it
3. Device Manager recognizes it
4. Disk Management recognizes

I'm not going to use WD's Data Life Guard because it makes me format the drive to install it; like it would be the master drive with an OS on it.

Any ideas other than data recovery?

FWIW, it's one partition, partitioned as a NTFS file system. Also, it's already been installed on this computer before. This problem only recently happened when I reformatted my master drive and installed a fresh copy of WinXP on it. My WinXP has all the latest updates too.

 

[21Outlaw]

I'm about retarded. I had to take ownership of the files... Never thought it would be that easy.

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: 21Outlaw
I'm about retarded. I had to take ownership of the files... Never thought it would be that easy.

When you got rid of the original XP installation the user ID also went away. Reinstalled you now have a new user ID and no longer own the files, but the system allows you as an admin to assume ownership... Good you found it!

pcgeek11

 

[21Outlaw]

What threw me off was I was using the same exact accounts, with the same exact permissions.

1 Admin account with administrator privleges (my account)
1 Guest account with guest privleges