External USB 2 drive not accessible after upgrade from 200..

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I upgraded from windows 2000 on a fat32 partition and did a clean install of
xp upgraded to a NTFS partition. Now i cannot access my external hard drive.
Disk management shows all the pertinent info on the drive and shows it as
healthy. It shows up in device manager and explorer and shows as working and
online but when i click on the drive in explorer it says "I:/ drive not
accessible" "Access denied". I need to get into this drive as it holds all my
clients work. Please help.

 

[raj]

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Boot the system in safe mode and try to access the drive, if the issue still
persist update your XP to SP2, here is the link how to do it

http://win-xp-sp.blogspot.com/2004/09/installing-windows-xp-service-pack-2.html

Raj
http://win-xp-sp.blogspot.com

"Einstein_Smart" wrote:

> I upgraded from windows 2000 on a fat32 partition and did a clean install of
> xp upgraded to a NTFS partition. Now i cannot access my external hard drive.
> Disk management shows all the pertinent info on the drive and shows it as
> healthy. It shows up in device manager and explorer and shows as working and
> online but when i click on the drive in explorer it says "I:/ drive not
> accessible" "Access denied". I need to get into this drive as it holds all my
> clients work. Please help.

 

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This might be applicable.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

r.

"Einstein_Smart" <Einstein_Smart@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:33E43D15-4C66-4FFF-BD99-C8FE1ABD1C5F@microsoft.com...
>I upgraded from windows 2000 on a fat32 partition and did a clean install
>of
> xp upgraded to a NTFS partition. Now i cannot access my external hard
> drive.
> Disk management shows all the pertinent info on the drive and shows it as
> healthy. It shows up in device manager and explorer and shows as working
> and
> online but when i click on the drive in explorer it says "I:/ drive not
> accessible" "Access denied". I need to get into this drive as it holds all
> my
> clients work. Please help.

 

[Guest]

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Thanks so much. This solved my problem. Really appreciate it. Have spend
hours on the net trying to solve this one. Once again thank you very much.

"namniar" wrote:

> This might be applicable.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
>
> r.
>
> "Einstein_Smart" <Einstein_Smart@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:33E43D15-4C66-4FFF-BD99-C8FE1ABD1C5F@microsoft.com...
> >I upgraded from windows 2000 on a fat32 partition and did a clean install
> >of
> > xp upgraded to a NTFS partition. Now i cannot access my external hard
> > drive.
> > Disk management shows all the pertinent info on the drive and shows it as
> > healthy. It shows up in device manager and explorer and shows as working
> > and
> > online but when i click on the drive in explorer it says "I:/ drive not
> > accessible" "Access denied". I need to get into this drive as it holds all
> > my
> > clients work. Please help.
>
>
>

 

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Your welcome.

r.

"Einstein_Smart" <EinsteinSmart@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:24AD77E6-B16E-46CB-BC7F-99A195B8F0C5@microsoft.com...
> Thanks so much. This solved my problem. Really appreciate it. Have spend
> hours on the net trying to solve this one. Once again thank you very much.
>
> "namniar" wrote:
>
>> This might be applicable.
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
>>
>> r.
>>
>> "Einstein_Smart" <Einstein_Smart@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:33E43D15-4C66-4FFF-BD99-C8FE1ABD1C5F@microsoft.com...
>> >I upgraded from windows 2000 on a fat32 partition and did a clean
>> >install
>> >of
>> > xp upgraded to a NTFS partition. Now i cannot access my external hard
>> > drive.
>> > Disk management shows all the pertinent info on the drive and shows it
>> > as
>> > healthy. It shows up in device manager and explorer and shows as
>> > working
>> > and
>> > online but when i click on the drive in explorer it says "I:/ drive not
>> > accessible" "Access denied". I need to get into this drive as it holds
>> > all
>> > my
>> > clients work. Please help.
>>
>>
>>