Hi Neil (and the others I CCed),

I backed up the drive's content under SAFE MODE and all went well.

No, there is no USB device that is masquarading as E:. However, I do believe, when I set this all up, that I did use Disk Management to re-assign the drive letters. But that was a year+ ago and never a problem encountered.

I've neglected to mention that this is Win XP SP2 with fixes to July XX incorporated.

Do any of you know what "Repair" does... I *think* the WinXP CD offers a "Repair" option but I have no idea what it's supposed to do?

Also FYI, as soon as anything needs to reference the E: drive (for instance, my automatic backup of OutLook 2003 needs it) open applications continue to work but nothing will stop or start and I have to use the power off button to shut her down. The start bar disappears too.

Cheers



>Hi,
>No, it is in computer management/disk management.
>JAG, Have you plugged USB pen/thumb drive in that is set to drive E: ?
>
>>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