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D:/ Not Accesible? Wheres The Label?

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by sxedoctor

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Greetings Everyone. Well, my d: is broken, when i click on it, it says "D:/ Not Accesible, Please Retry". I know what to do to fix it (go to properties and make Label say "D:/") Yet when i try to enter the label, it wont show anything. I can type and type but nothing happens. Please, Somebody Help!

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by thechas

I assume that your "D" drive is your CD-ROM drive.

2 ways to force windows to find it.

1. Install updated chipset / motherboard drivers.
In particular, the IDE Bus-Master driver.
If you are unsure who made the chipset or your motherboard, go to www.motherboards.org
or www.wimsbios.com
Use the tools that they have for identifying your motherboard.

2. From device manager, remove the IDE controllers.
Reboot.
Windows will find the IDE controller, and search for the driver.
It should then find the drives, and install them.

If your "D" drive is a new hard drive, Windows will not assign it a letter until it has been partitioned.
I recommend running fdisk from a boot disk for this purpose.
You will need to use option 5 to select the 2nd drive.
Then, partition the drive as desired.
Note: for W98, I do not recommend using partitions larger than 31GB.

Chas

by @lberto

Hello there,

I need a little more info. What is your D: Drive;
.- a CDRom drive?
.- a Zip Drive
.- a second hard drive?
.- a second partition?

.- If it is a CDRom drive then, does it happen with all the cd you put on it?, if so, then you probably have a hardware problem, but I recommend you to get a new driver for your cd, replace your current one and give it a try. If it doesn't happen with all the cds you put on it then it is probably that the one that doesn't work is because it wasrecorded in a higher speed so your cd rom reader is slower that your cd speed, so it won't work here.
.- If it is a Zip drive then your Zip drive is not ok or your zip disk is not good. Change the Zip disk, if still it doesn't work then your ZIP Drive is broken.
.- If you have a second Hard disk and it can not be read then, if it was already used it has another partition format, probably you have Windows 95 or Windows NT and your second Hard disk is Windows 98 SE or Windows 2000. Your machine won't be able to ready it because it has different partitions, Master is Fat16 or NTFS and the second drive is probably Fat32, then in order to be used you'll probably will have to format your second drive.
.-If it is a second partition on your hard drive then it is probably corrupted or not partitioned, you'll have to format it and then it will work.

As you can see there are so many posibilities, please give me more info, such as what kind of unit is drive D: and what OS are you using.Good luck, I hope it helps

@lberto
alberto@pancarib.com

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