I fixed it in the end by booting off the install CD and running a repair
installation, no idea what caused the problem originally I'm afraid though.
Peter Lawton
"bjr" <bjr-> wrote in message
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> aaava wrote:
>> Does anyone from Microsoft bother answering any of these questions? Or
>> is this going to be another one of those 'call M$, end up speaking to 11
>> people over one month. Never get problem resolved', issues...
>>
>> Sure seems like M$ didn't bother to reply to you. Sorry to hear that.
>> I'm having the same problem, only both external drives do NOT show up.
>> I can plug in one at a time, but not both. Of course, this is a m$ usb
>> driver issue, but seems they don't respond, and I am sure done with
>> trying to ever get answers for ANY of my questions from anyone at M$..
>> Billie, if you're out there? You've become IBM. Worse than IBM.
>> Customers can no longer talk to someone that knows anything.
>>
>> "Peter Lawton" wrote:
>>
>>> Whenever I open disc management on my XP x64 box the discs volumes show
>>> up but with no drive letters, I also get this error in the System log:-
>>>
>>> Source: VDS Basic Provider 1.0
>>> Event ID: 1
>>> Description:
>>> Unexpected failure. Error code: 1@01010018
>>>
>>> Both C: & D: volumes do show up in Explorer though and the machine is
>>> working OK.
>>>
>>> Anyone come across this before?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
> Peter - I have this problem on an xp pro x64 installation also and have
> not found a solution yet. On the same machine I have an xp pro x64 and an
> xp pro x86 installed on other partitions that work fine.
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