not a bootable drive, it was for storage purposes. Same system, just started having all kinds of drive problems a bit back. I 1st thought it was the boot drive, so i ordered a new drive, but b4 the new drive got here the boot drive started working again randomly, but ONLY when my 2nd drive was not plugged in.
once my new drive came(SATA), i installed that, took out my old boot drive, put in the 2nd drive(both old drives are PATA), and the comp works perfectly fine, BIOS sees the 2nd drive, but windows can't access it at all (but it shows up as a local drive in the 'my computer' window), even to defrag or ckdsk. Maxtor utility progs show the drive as fine. Knoppix also cannot access it. Knoppix shows I/O error when trying to do anything with it.
when i try to access it via a line command prompt, i get the same thing as when i try to get to it via windows: "the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable"
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Date: 2007-01-25 11:02 pm (UTC)once my new drive came(SATA), i installed that, took out my old boot drive, put in the 2nd drive(both old drives are PATA), and the comp works perfectly fine, BIOS sees the 2nd drive, but windows can't access it at all (but it shows up as a local drive in the 'my computer' window), even to defrag or ckdsk. Maxtor utility progs show the drive as fine. Knoppix also cannot access it. Knoppix shows I/O error when trying to do anything with it.
when i try to access it via a line command prompt, i get the same thing as when i try to get to it via windows: "the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable"