pc see's d drive but won't access it

[Todd Wehner]

win 98 350mhz 128mb ram voodoo 3500 vidieo card ds-xg sound card exsternal hp cdw 7500 plus. can't access /d drive anymore good thing it still finds /e , device manager says device working properly. I cant find conflicts anywhere. Tryed to go into help and it won't find hh.exe either I used to think i could fix something if I read enough about it but now i can't do that , but I need the drive more than the help file I think! any help would be great. I have tryed removeing It and letting the wizard find It and It did but still not accessable any help would be great. Thanks in advance
Todd

[Whyzman]

Hello Todd,

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Have you tried removing the device in SAFE MODE? Then, REBOOT and letting Windows reinstall.

What is supposed to be on the D: drive you mention is not showing up?

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[Todd Wehner]

It's my internal drive but It won't find disk In It just shows d; Drive and don't know how to do It In safemode I don't think so anyway. I need to go to work be back soon thanks so much

[Rick]

I would first try to access the D: drive from a dos prompt.
Boot up and reboot to DOS prompt and check the D drive.
Use scandisk and or chkdsk to inspect the drive.

Try to read and write to the drive in dos..
A simple DIR command will show if you can read the drive.
To test the write . Open the dos edit program and create a test.txt file.
Save the file to d:


if you can read and write to the drive in dos them it’s a setting or lock in win that is the problem

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[Todd Wehner]

Just tryed rebooting with startup disk and got general failure reading drive a: retry,ignore,abort or cancel. could you tell me how to do it in safemode and thanks so much anyway
todd

[Rick]

Boot up in 98 then shut down and select boot/restart in dos. Mode.

Or Shut down the system.
Then restart it and press F8 while it boots.
At the boot menu select dos prompt.
Then change to the d: drive

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[sea69]

try pressing F8 at boot to get to start up menu.

then choose option 6, "Command Prompt Only", when you get to the prompt, type scanreg /restore with a space between scanreg and /.

restore your registry to ONE {{only}} day before this happened.

is that doesn't work, do it again and type: scanreg /fix

do this and give us apost back/

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[Todd Wehner]

thanks folks as soon as i can try it i'll let you know THANKS AGAIN
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