First of all, here are some of my computer specs for reference:
Windows XP Professional SP3
1 GB RAM
1.90 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core
This is also something that I found odd:
Hard Drive (C:\)
149.50 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
81.67 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-H653A [CD-ROM drive]
—–> Lexmark USB Mass Storage USB Device [Hard drive] — drive 1 <----- (Odd??) ST3160812AS (Hard drive C:\) -- drive 0 So anyway, these are the currently known symptoms of my problem. First, I cannot access windows update. I am using Internet Explorer 8 which is NOT beta. Next, I cannot see my internal hard drive ANYWHERE but in my computer. It does not appear in Disc Management and is not accessible in command prompt. I tried using chkdsk on my drive (my internal drive, C:\), but it gave me the error message "The drive, the path, or the file name is not valid." I tried typing "chkdsk C:\" and "chkdsk C:\ /R". Also, on top of my internal hard drive giving me problems, I am also not able to use flash drives. To explain this problem, when I insert a flash drive, it shows up under Safely Remove Hardware like this: "Safely Remove USB Mass Storage Device". That is all it says. Safely Remove Hardware does not give me an error message like if the drive didn't install correctly, and it doesn't show a drive letter. My flash drives are also not accessible or visible in my Computer or Disk Management. I can access my external hard drive for some reason, but it doesn't show up in disk management like it used to either. It does however show up in my Computer. One last thing, I am also NOT able to populate any of my drives for information. (By going to My Computer, Right clicking a drive, selecting properties, going to the Hardware tab, selecting properties, going to the volume tab, and then FINALLY selecting populate.) When I try to populate a drive the information comes in as follows: "Volume Information for this disk cannot be found. This may happen if the disk is a 1394 or a USB device on a Windows 2000 Machine." now it is even worse. It never used to give that error message it just displayed no information. PLEASE HELP! I have searched EVERYWHERE for a solution to this problem with no results. Could this possibly be a virus?
