Hi Neil,

I assume you mean Device Manager in "System" of Control Panel.

There both "Disk drives" and "IDE/ATA/ATAPI controllers" show no red/yellow markers and d-clicking on either shows "The device is working properly".

Very strange... and really messing me up, since all my own work is on that drive.


>Hi,
>What status does Disk Management report about the drive.
>
>>I'm having a strange problem with my E: drive, which is not partitioned and a separate drive by itself.
>>
>>When I click on it or its plus-sign in Explorer the system just sits there and I cannot start or stop anything. I can get the Task Manager using Crtl-Alt-Del but no reactions if I try to end a task or shutdown.
>>
>>If I just rt-click on the drive in Explorer I *DO* get the properties displayed!!!
>>
>>However, I can access the drive normally in SAFE MODE.
>>I ran a chkdsk on it and some repairs were reported.
>>I have removed (under safe mode) the specification to have the page file on it.
>>Still no joy.
>>
>>Any ideas as to what's up?
>>
>>Thanks