I just recently had to reinstall my OS (Windows XP) following a crash.
It has been really painful installing, downloading loads of updates,
drivers, application updates etc

Anyway, I decided that as I had a large 2nd drive, maybe it would be a
good idea to copy Windows + Documents&Settings to this drive before
going much further.

(...can you see the horror coming up yet?)

I created a small batch file on the lines of xcopy source destination /flags

To test I used the c:\temp folder which had only a couple of files

I ran the batch file

Now when I attempted to open drive d I got "Access Denied"
Properties showed drive D as 'RAW' and 0 bytes

Am I really screwed?

For the sake of completeness here is the command:
xcopy c:\temp d:\ /E/V/H/R/K/X/Y

I thought I would check here first in case there was the remotest
possibility I could get my drive back...

<snip>


Look in disk management...
how does it report the drive ?

philo wrote:
I looked in Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager/Disk Drives
This shows the 2 drives
Right Clicking and looking at properties tells me:
Location 1(1) Working Properly and 'use this device (enable) in the drop
down box at the bottom of the dialog
Location 0(0) has the same as above, but has the 'use this device
(enable) drop down greyed-out.

On neither of these, opening the 'Volume' tab does it have any volume
information (not sure if there should be)

I looked at System Restore and this shows drive D: as 'Offline'

sigh
weep
DW

philo wrote:

Drive C:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System NTFS
Size 74.50 GB (79,990,812,672 bytes)
Free Space 67.49 GB (72,471,015,424 bytes)
Volume Name
Volume Serial Number D89ECAB0

Drive D:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed Not Available
File System Not Available
Size Not Available
Free Space Not Available
Volume Name Not Available
Volume Serial Number Not Available

Drive E:
Description CD-ROM Disc

"dw" <dw@nospam.com> wrote in message
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No

I said to look in disk management!

philo wrote:
is not properties or in MSINFO32.

dw <dw@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Oh dear...

Take two aspirin and have a good lie down. I'll be at your place shortly.

!

Before the doctor gets there

go to: control panel


administrative tools


computer management


disk management


it's not as if microsoft is hiding it you know

"dw" <dw@nospam.com> wrote in message
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2. Select Manage.
3. Select Disk Management. That was easy <g>.

"dw" <dw@nospam.com> wrote in message
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right click My Computer, select Manage, select Disk Management, what does it
indicate with respect to your second drive?
Did you partition & format the drive before using it, or was it already
formatted?

P.

Flyer wrote:
This is what it shows:

Volume C:
Layout Partition
Type Basic
File System NTFS
Status Healthy (System)
+ info on sizes and %Free

And for the messed-up Drive:
Volume D:
Layout Partition
Type Basic
File System NTFS
Status Healthy
+ info on sizes and %Free

In the lower window it shows both drives as Online, NTFS and Healthy

This seems at odds with the 'properties' dialogs previously obtained

tia
DW

Dr. Jack Kevorkian wrote:
Computers are too stressful. Is this why some people go for Macs?
I have a work colleague who uses Macs and he has not got a clue about
discs, Os updates, etc (mind you ... I have just demonstrated that a
little knowledge is a dangerous thing!!!!)

It is a shame though that these systems are not robust enough against
idiots like me !!!!

DW

<snip>

Well if disk management "sees" it ok ...that's a good sign of course.

You mentioned that you had to reinstall XP "due to a crash"

Just wondering if the crash was caused by a hardware problem...

If there are no problems with your HD controllers in the control panel...
check or replace your data cables

philo wrote:
The system crash was a computer 'lockup', had to hard reset, and when it
came back up the OS seemed messed up.

After reinstalling XP, drive C: and D;w were ok and useable.

dw wrote:
Here is another anomaly...

I have just run AVG Spyware Application
This actually is scanning drive D: quite happily (and it is displaying
all my lost filenames and folders quite happily)
I ran AVG Anti-Virus ... but this cannot see drive D:

Explorer continues to report it as a 0 byte RAW drive

DW

Very odd?

If your drives are IDE...open the case and be sure the IDE ribbon cables are
seated correctly.

Unplug and re-plug them. The cables are inexpensive enough and those 80wire
ribbons are fragile...

You may need to replace the cable(s)

philo <philo@privacy.net> Thou sweet sink. Thou laughable, unsightly
poor unminded outlaw sneaking home. Thou frosty people. Thou
slow-witted, bowlegged fusty plebeian. Ye dreamt up and ye emitted:

"Explorer continues to report it as a 0 byte RAW drive"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You snipped that bit, you utter fucking idiot. His cables
are not the problem, you are. His partition header is fux0red, as are your,
ahem, "technical" skills.


--
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September 2005 and April 2006

"K-Man's particular genius, however, lies not merely in his humour,
but his ability to make posters who had previously seemed reasonably
well-balanced turn into foaming, frothing, death threat-uttering
maniacs" - Snarky, Demon Lord of Confusion

"remember that th [sic] head toecutter has quarter million confirmed
kadaitcha man kills ok" - the land surfer

Fuckwitted alt.atheism atheist to Kadaitcha Man:
"Imagine if I were to suggest "I have a prehensile tail". You
would, naturally, ask for evidence."

Kadaitcha Man in reply to fuckwitted alt.atheism atheist:
"Not at all. I would unquestionably accept your admission to being
a monkey."

Thou fat-kidneyed rascal. Thou wayward, three-chinned idle-boy.

Sure...
Of course I could be wrong...
*However* I have seen similar problems that turned out to be nothing worse
than a bad IDE cable.
(or loose connection)

What got me suspicious was the hard crash the OP original encountered.


(aside)

Anyway Mr. K. glad to see you recovered from your fatal illness.
Too bad you already bought a coffin.
Oh well, you'll need it one of these days anyway.

In the novel, "Moby Dick" the chap slept in the nice coffin he made...
Ironically the coffin was what saved his life...
(for a while anyway).

philo <philo@privacy.net> Thou abhorrent hellish dog. Thou
common-kissing timorous thief. Thou mad misleader. I know thou art an
irksome brawling scold. Ye secreted and ye hawked:

You utter fucking moron.

"xcopy c:\temp d:\ /E/V/H/R/K/X/Y"

Look at that, you fuckhead. The goose is probably only telling you half
the story. Ten to one on that when he realised what he'd done, he got into
a panic and Pffp mmpfff mmpff fp mmmff mmpmpfp mffpfm mfpf fmmp fmmfpfm, fpmp
ppfpmmp pmmfpm, mmfppfp, mfmpmff. Pp pfmpmpm, mpfp pmpmmf fmmm, pffmpf,
mpmmpfp mmmm mpmpmmf fp mfmfmmm. Pf fmmm pmfmpfp pfmfpfp, pmfmf pmpppm
fmfff mmpf fmfmpfp fmmfmp mfmfmpf fmp mffmmmf fpppmpm mfpp. Fmffmfp
mfmpmmm mmpp mm fpfp, ppfmp mfmpfff mppmpf fmmp pp.

--
alt.usenet.kooks - Pierre Salinger Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker:
September 2005 and April 2006

"K-Man's particular genius, however, lies not merely in his humour,
but his ability to make posters who had previously seemed reasonably
well-balanced turn into foaming, frothing, death threat-uttering
maniacs" - Snarky, Demon Lord of Confusion

"remember that th [sic] head toecutter has quarter million confirmed
kadaitcha man kills ok" - the land surfer

Fuckwitted alt.atheism atheist to Kadaitcha Man:
"Imagine if I were to suggest "I have a prehensile tail". You
would, naturally, ask for evidence."

Kadaitcha Man in reply to fuckwitted alt.atheism atheist:
"Not at all. I would unquestionably accept your admission to being
a monkey."

Thou idle-boy. Thou whoreson cullionly barbermonger.

Kadaitcha Man wrote:
At the time it did seem reasonable ....
/E Copies directories and subdirectories, inc. empty ones.
/V Verifies each new file.
/H Copies hidden and system files also.
/R Overwrites read-only files.
/K Copies attributes. Normal Xcopy will reset read-only
attributes.
/X Copies file audit settings (implies /O).
/Y Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an
existing destination file.

ie copy files/ subfolders, with attributes and permissions retained.