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re: unable to open hard drive
Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 5:49 am
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Posted by tranzhuman (3 messages posted)


P.S : If the partition with the OS is corrupt then you must perform a clean reinstall of windows making sure that this partition undergoes a full format. This method does work for USB drives as well. Just make sure that you do a full format rather than a quick format.


On Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 5:34 am, tranzhuman wrote:
>Hi.
>I have had the same problem.The only effective method to fix this problem that I
>have discovered is to format the drive/partition. Once you do this it fixes the problems
>and not only can you open the drive but the right click menu which appears corrupt
>because of the damage caused by the virus becomes normal as well.
>
>This is not the ideal solution though and I am still searching for a solution which
>would not involve formatting. However if you can backup your files to another partition
>you can rest assured that this method will work.
>
>Please let me know if you come across a different solution.
>
>Cheers
>
>
>


Written in response to:
re: unable to open hard drive (tranzhuman: Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 5:34 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: unable to open hard drive (Andrew Mark Smith: Saturday, June 9, 2007 at 7:38 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-unable to open hard drive (saqib`: Wed, Mar 7, 2007, 6:55 am)
-re: unable to open hard drive (TOASTER: Wed, Mar 7, 2007, 7:28 am)
-re: unable to open hard drive (saqib`: Wed, Mar 7, 2007, 8:55 am)
-re: unable to open hard drive (Toaster: Wed, Mar 7, 2007, 12:42 pm)
*re: unable to open hard drive (Andy Smith: Fri, Mar 9, 2007, 6:17 am)
-re: unable to open hard drive (tranzhuman: Sat, May 26, 2007, 5:34 am)
-re: unable to open hard drive (tranzhuman: Sat, May 26, 2007, 5:49 am)
-re: unable to open hard drive (Andrew Mark Smith: Sat, Jun 9, 2007, 7:38 am)
-re: unable to open hard drive (M Chau: Sun, Jun 24, 2007, 3:31 am)
*re: unable to open hard drive (Lalu Lonappan: Tue, Dec 25, 2007, 2:21 am)
*Unable to open hard drives (pratik bhatt: Tue, Dec 25, 2007, 11:02 pm)
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