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I'm running Vista Ultimate. My system has 3 hard drives (all Western
Dig.) and two burners. Disk 0 is actually my H drive. It is FAT 32,
200 gigs. and I store stuff on it, ie. my mp3's. This drive has been
running fine for years. The other day, I transferred my 11 ZZ Top
albums over to it. Yesterday, this drive came up "Local Disk."
Computer Management describes it as "RAW," "Healthy" and "Logical
Drive." I thought that it might be a virus but Zone Alarm ran a scan
and it came up clean. Partition Table Doctor 3.0 shows that it has a
problem but it can't fix it. I tried to run PowerMax but I can't make
a floppy because PowerMax insists that my write-protect tab is closed
when it isn't. I checked my cables and they seem fine. Any ideas?
Thanks.

Scribner <> wrote in
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> I'm running Vista Ultimate.

There's your problem right there.

I take it this drive is relativly new. For your partition to sundenly be
"Raw"!!! Sounds like you have a faulty drive.

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 20:32:16 -0800, "Meno Talaroc" <>
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>I take it this drive is relativly new. For your partition to sundenly be
>"Raw"!!! Sounds like you have a faulty drive.
>
Over 5 years old with no problems until now.

I booted under Windows 98 SE. This is why I use FAT 32. The drive
was fully accessible. So what is Vista's problem?

Scribner <> wrote:

>I booted under Windows 98 SE. This is why I use FAT 32. The drive
>was fully accessible. So what is Vista's problem?

NT, win2000, XP, vista each of them change the MBR (and why you have
to load them in the order given to multi boot).

Just saying it might be the MBR couldn't be read by vista, or vista
just didn't like the drive.

FWIW I still use FAT32 for the same reason, and it seems to of worked
for you.
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"Scribner" <> wrote in message
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> I'm running Vista Ultimate. My system has 3 hard drives (all Western
> Dig.) and two burners. Disk 0 is actually my H drive. It is FAT 32,
> 200 gigs. and I store stuff on it, ie. my mp3's. This drive has been
> running fine for years. The other day, I transferred my 11 ZZ Top
> albums over to it. Yesterday, this drive came up "Local Disk."
> Computer Management describes it as "RAW," "Healthy" and "Logical
> Drive." I thought that it might be a virus but Zone Alarm ran a scan
> and it came up clean. Partition Table Doctor 3.0 shows that it has a
> problem but it can't fix it. I tried to run PowerMax but I can't make
> a floppy because PowerMax insists that my write-protect tab is closed
> when it isn't. I checked my cables and they seem fine. Any ideas?
> Thanks.

Wouldn't want to do a little trading on the ZZT collection, would you?

Scribner <> wrote in
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> I booted under Windows 98 SE. This is why I use FAT 32. The drive
> was fully accessible. So what is Vista's problem?

Don't you know that Vista will cripple your hardware and software if it
detects copyrighted content? That's why it's a steaming pile of crap.

"Sharp Dressed Man" <> wrote:

>Wouldn't want to do a little trading on the ZZT collection, would you?

http://thepiratebay.org/search/zz%20top/0/99/100


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On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 07:11:41 -0500, "Sharp Dressed Man" <>
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>"Scribner" <> wrote in message
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>> I'm running Vista Ultimate. My system has 3 hard drives (all Western
>> Dig.) and two burners. Disk 0 is actually my H drive. It is FAT 32,
>> 200 gigs. and I store stuff on it, ie. my mp3's. This drive has been
>> running fine for years. The other day, I transferred my 11 ZZ Top
>> albums over to it. Yesterday, this drive came up "Local Disk."
>> Computer Management describes it as "RAW," "Healthy" and "Logical
>> Drive." I thought that it might be a virus but Zone Alarm ran a scan
>> and it came up clean. Partition Table Doctor 3.0 shows that it has a
>> problem but it can't fix it. I tried to run PowerMax but I can't make
>> a floppy because PowerMax insists that my write-protect tab is closed
>> when it isn't. I checked my cables and they seem fine. Any ideas?
>> Thanks.
>
>Wouldn't want to do a little trading on the ZZT collection, would you?
>
You can have what I have, except that I can't access it.