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| Thread ID: 40686 | 2003-12-15 00:08:00 | D drive not accessible | gtx1 (5004) | Press F1 |
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| 200571 | 2003-12-15 00:08:00 | Greetings I am using a near new machine 2 months old , Windows XP home edition , with 5 users logged on . problem is only one of the users can access the D drive . the others get a error message - D drive not accessible . This is driving me batty . MSDN were no help . A search of the web revealed a solution for Windows NT machines with this problem , but when I went to the Registry to solve the problem using the NT solution , the file mentioned was not there . I am very reluctant to muck around with Registry settings . Any suggestions . | gtx1 (5004) | ||
| 200572 | 2003-12-15 00:48:00 | Hi gt, and welcome to press f1. In answer to your question.... are there any sharing and security settings enabled on the D drive? It sounds like there might be. Is the only person who can access the drive the administrator or someone with administrative rights? You can find out by right clicking on the drive and choosing security and sharing. Give it a whack :-) B. |
Barnabas (4562) | ||
| 200573 | 2003-12-15 00:51:00 | Windows XP, 5 Users login the same machine? D drive = CDROM drive? The one user who can access the drive, what rights does he have? Is that user an admin or limited? I'm assume the rest have limited access and it's probably been setup so that they can't access the drive in question. To fix it, would mean changing the security on the drive and allowing them read access, if it's a CDRW then write access too. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 200574 | 2003-12-15 09:27:00 | Thanks for your suggestion . Everyone is logged on as an administrator . Though only one user has sharing/security settings available to him when I right click- properties on the D drive which is a DVD/CDR drive . The others do not have this luxury . I have tried to put sharing /security settings in the Shared Document folder without success . Any other suggestions gratefully received |
gtx1 (5004) | ||
| 200575 | 2006-03-10 00:55:00 | Ive been perplexed by my computer for a while now. I have windows 2000 and my computer originally said D:\ Not Accessible. I tried uninstalling my d drive and reinstalling it and now it says nothing at all. D drive for me is not even located on my computer. Is there a corrupt file on my hard drive? What can I do to fix it. |
ThisIsMyElenor01 (5005) | ||
| 200576 | 2006-03-10 01:21:00 | Welcome to PressF1. Is the D: "disk" a separate hard disk, a partition on a hard disk, or a CD drive? Did you have files on it? Open a DOS window, and do fdisk /status . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 200577 | 2006-03-10 16:20:00 | Its a cd Rom drive. | ThisIsMyElenor01 (5005) | ||
| 200578 | 2006-03-11 00:56:00 | Has the drive ever worked under W2k? :D Does the BIOS recognise it? Make sure that it is seen as a "CD/DVD" by the BIOS. You might have to explicitly set that. Sometimes, autodetect will decide that an optical drive is a hard disk, and Windows does not like that. ;) |
Graham L (2) | ||
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