Hi. I have a external 200 gig where I store my music, pictures,dv webcam vids and pretty much anything I have, including backups of games because I like to keep them in original casing.
Now I cam home from college and I noticed I forgot the AC adapter for my external. BUMMER! But to do things, I really need to be able to acess it..especially If I want to listen to music at all, etc So unhooked my external from its case and nhooked my 80 gig backup drive (Tho regretfully I recently cleaned it all up so I haven't had a chance to load up all the new copies of the pictures and dv movies and whatnot) and temporarily plugged in the good ol 200 b/c I wanted to show my brother some stuff...but it won't acess!!!
windows took like 5 minutes between when the "windows" logo went away and the time I could finally enter my password. I was like "werd...."
and then when i went to acesss my computer I noticed extremely lag and non responsiveness byt the external.after 10-15 seconds i CAN browse around...but when I click on my hdd I tired to acesss my drive (J
and i got this messagE:
___________________ (For some reason i can't access the drive right now i will do it later when the message pops up)
so then i go to control panel, administriative "powers" and see if windows recognizes the disk and for some reason it recognizes it fine and it says its status is "healthy". If so then why can I not access the drive normally? Is there some problem at all that anyone can think of? Initially i remembered I'm using a Promise ATA 100 contrl card that didnt support the cable select option so I switched it to primary. That didn't solve it. Then i got another cable and I plugged it into the IDE2 of the controller card and it still didn't fix the problem (i used to be able to exchange from the hard drive to the controller card without a problem but that was when i was debating on making it an internal backup or external backup)
I've check the jumpers a 1000 times. I' mthinking of going and buying another external case but those are slightly expensive
Can anyone help me or have any idea? Some of that stuff like pictures and the videos I'm reallllllly worried about. I have projects and stuff that I had backuped, but as of the laste 48 hours didn't spent time to rebackup everything. Music can be had again, as can easily ripping a few cds...but its the other stuff i'm worried
If windows has no problem seeing the drive, then why can't I acess it?
Now I cam home from college and I noticed I forgot the AC adapter for my external. BUMMER! But to do things, I really need to be able to acess it..especially If I want to listen to music at all, etc So unhooked my external from its case and nhooked my 80 gig backup drive (Tho regretfully I recently cleaned it all up so I haven't had a chance to load up all the new copies of the pictures and dv movies and whatnot) and temporarily plugged in the good ol 200 b/c I wanted to show my brother some stuff...but it won't acess!!!
windows took like 5 minutes between when the "windows" logo went away and the time I could finally enter my password. I was like "werd...."
and then when i went to acesss my computer I noticed extremely lag and non responsiveness byt the external.after 10-15 seconds i CAN browse around...but when I click on my hdd I tired to acesss my drive (J
and i got this messagE:___________________ (For some reason i can't access the drive right now i will do it later when the message pops up)
so then i go to control panel, administriative "powers" and see if windows recognizes the disk and for some reason it recognizes it fine and it says its status is "healthy". If so then why can I not access the drive normally? Is there some problem at all that anyone can think of? Initially i remembered I'm using a Promise ATA 100 contrl card that didnt support the cable select option so I switched it to primary. That didn't solve it. Then i got another cable and I plugged it into the IDE2 of the controller card and it still didn't fix the problem (i used to be able to exchange from the hard drive to the controller card without a problem but that was when i was debating on making it an internal backup or external backup)
I've check the jumpers a 1000 times. I' mthinking of going and buying another external case but those are slightly expensive
Can anyone help me or have any idea? Some of that stuff like pictures and the videos I'm reallllllly worried about. I have projects and stuff that I had backuped, but as of the laste 48 hours didn't spent time to rebackup everything. Music can be had again, as can easily ripping a few cds...but its the other stuff i'm worried
If windows has no problem seeing the drive, then why can't I acess it?
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