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Lost MyBook Drive Letter
When I first connected the Western Digital MyBook 250 USB2.0 drive to my
brand new Vista Home Basic machine from Acer it ran beautifully. Having heard all the horror stories about Vista, is was quite delighted to find it better than I thought. I just left Win98SE behind when my MB flamed out. Then after a backup image was created and restored after the latest RealPlayer wouldn't install, I found my MyBook had disappeared from My Computer. Vista Disk Manager finds it but it lacks a drive letter, and a right click brings up only a help choice which simply opens the generic help screen. Searching it was fun, but I am unable to do anything much in the command window probably because of protection. The Disk Manager says it's in use but I never see any activity. Reinstalling drivers doesn't help as the drivers are "working". The disk is healthy in the window, and is called "Disk 1" but seems to be protected from any changes. The machine works fine whether it is connected or not, and though "safe to remove" does not work, it removes with no apparent problem Ubuntu finds it and accesses it just fine either read or write, so the disk is working as are the connections. So, it does seem to be some kind of access protection. Windows finds the same driver each time. I have tried all the fixes here, including deleting the driver cache and related files and rebooting, but no joy. I did not apply the hot fix, as it did not seem to me it was aimed at this problem. My system is fully updated as of today. I'm an old DOS jock, so I ma comfortable with a command line if necessary. As you see, I need help! Any suggestions? Blessings & peace --- Ray |
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Lost MyBook Drive Letter
Eureka! I put together a bunch of stuff I've been reading in this group and
others, and managed to make it happen. First I discovered the command: cmd exe elevated which let me acuatlly do something with the command diskpart I listed the disks listed the partition on the MyBook deleted the partition created a new partition went back into Vista Disk Management There I could right click and get all those nifty choices Then I reformatted as a ntfs volume Gave it a drive letter Gave my account full control and the rest, as they say is history. There were too many posters who gave pieces of this to thank them all, so thank you all. I hope someone else can use this. Now I did one more thing that I am not all that sure was a good idea. I set my j partition as active. I am not quite sure what that means, but it seems to be working just fine. Perhaps someone can explain that for me? Thanks again, Wandering "Wandering" wrote in message ... When I first connected the Western Digital MyBook 250 USB2.0 drive to my brand new Vista Home Basic machine from Acer it ran beautifully. Having heard all the horror stories about Vista, is was quite delighted to find it better than I thought. I just left Win98SE behind when my MB flamed out. Then after a backup image was created and restored after the latest RealPlayer wouldn't install, I found my MyBook had disappeared from My Computer. Vista Disk Manager finds it but it lacks a drive letter, and a right click brings up only a help choice which simply opens the generic help screen. Searching it was fun, but I am unable to do anything much in the command window probably because of protection. The Disk Manager says it's in use but I never see any activity. Reinstalling drivers doesn't help as the drivers are "working". The disk is healthy in the window, and is called "Disk 1" but seems to be protected from any changes. The machine works fine whether it is connected or not, and though "safe to remove" does not work, it removes with no apparent problem Ubuntu finds it and accesses it just fine either read or write, so the disk is working as are the connections. So, it does seem to be some kind of access protection. Windows finds the same driver each time. I have tried all the fixes here, including deleting the driver cache and related files and rebooting, but no joy. I did not apply the hot fix, as it did not seem to me it was aimed at this problem. My system is fully updated as of today. I'm an old DOS jock, so I ma comfortable with a command line if necessary. As you see, I need help! Any suggestions? Blessings & peace --- Ray |
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