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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: glpeters on November 05, 2009, 09:11:08 PM

Title: E drive disappears from My Computer
Post by: glpeters on November 05, 2009, 09:11:08 PM

Upon restart, the E drive icon is visible in My Computer, and is an active drive (used for backup).

After several minutes to an hour, the E drive vanishes, and cannot be found.  Only a restart will make it re-appear.  Any suggestions?  Thanx!

Title: Re: E drive disappears from My Computer
Post by: Broni on November 05, 2009, 10:05:06 PM

What is E drive? Partition, another hard drive, optical drive.....?

Title: Re: E drive disappears from My Computer
Post by: glpeters on November 06, 2009, 05:35:24 AM

The drive is an operating hard drive, contains only files (back up files from C drive).  The drive a approx 2 yrs old.  OS is XP with all current updates.  Thank you!

Title: Re: E drive disappears from My Computer
Post by: Allan on November 06, 2009, 05:52:10 AM

Let's start with this - Boot to the Recovery Console and run chkdsk e: /r