From: Bert Haskins (bhaskins_at_triton.net)
Date: Fri Mar 01 2002 - 00:25:37 EST
I strongly recommend that you download and try the
Ranish partition manager.
Search on "Ranish"
I've seen a few case where "Part" can find errors
that can sneak up and bite you when it can hurt the most.
The program should just give you a report of your partition setup.
and it won't change anything unless to tell it to..
Watch out especially if it finds an non-MS partition at the very
end of the drive.
If this gives you a clean bill of health, try running SFC.
I've seen some very!! strange problems found and subsequently
repaired that way also.
Then try running Scandisk (full) to see if you are getting random
reading errors on the drive, if the system is having problems
reading the partition table, it should have problems reading
other clusters also.
I have seen this problem (very random reading errors) on
desktop systems and it was the ide cable!
If all of these check out OK, then I'm with Bill.
-- Bert
Bill Morrow wrote:
> richard..
>
> i never heard of such a thing..!
>
> what happens when you just use 'the' drive in the ultrabay and no drive in
> the main drive bay..??
>
> <------------------------------->
> Cordially, :-)
> Bill Morrow
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Chalk" <rchalk_at_nettaxi.com>
> To: <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:25 PM
> Subject: Peculiar Hard Disk behavior
>
> > I have an A21p, and I have two identical 32 GB Hard Drives, both with
> > Windows 2000 as the OS.
> > These are both partitioned as one Primary partition, and one Extended
> > partition, with the extended partition divided into two logical drives,
> for
> > a total of three.
> >
> > When I put one of the drives in the main drive bay, it works normally, and
> > shows 3 partitions. I can read them all, everything works normally.
> > However, when I put the same drive into the second HDD adapter, and
> install
> > it into the UltraBay, with the other drive as the main, I can see only two
> > of the three partitions, the primary, and the second logical drive. When
> I
> > open Drive Manager, I can see the missing partition, which the system
> > reports as "Healthy". I can look at capacity, used space, etc., but there
> > is no drive letter, and the Explore function is disabled.
> >
> > If I try to assign a drive letter, and then try to explore, I get a
> message
> > that the system cannot find the device.
> >
> > All six partitions are FAT32
> >
> > Can anyone offer an explanation or a fix?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
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