CurtPalme.com Home Theater Forum

**AnalogRocks**

I need to remove the viruses from an old hard drive. I have it hooked up via ATA to USB 2.0. I know there's something special you need to do in order to make winblows see it but I can't find out what that is. Halp!

Clarence · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:38 am Post subject:

Start... Run... compmgmt.msc
..+ Storage
....+ Disk Management

Your USB drive should show up here. Make sure it's "Online" and "Active".

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:39 am Post subject:

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:38 am Post subject:

XP saw\ it after I removed a memory stick and pluged the external drive into another port. It didn't show up in the copmngmt

Angus_rg · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:33 pm Post subject:

That's weird. It should see it automatically. USB is a master/slave system, where the computer controls the resources. It could have been hung on the USB thumb for some reason, and yanking it may have reset it.

Just curious, did you reboot before trying any of this?

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject:

Angus_rg · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject:

Well, that shoot my theory out of the water. Maybe your thumb drive was possessed.

emdawgz1 · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 7949

Angus_rg · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:32 pm Post subject:

Maybe yours were possessed too.

aspec2 · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 549

Analog

If you can see it in computer management the OPSYS knows it is there. Make sure it has a drive letter. Its the only thing I can think of that would stop it from being displayed.

Walt

JustGreg · Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 3098 Location: Kenosha, WI

Out of curiosity, what are you using for an anti virus proggie? I just dumped McAfee and got a free for Individual use avast! (McAfee was at the end of the subscription and I couldn't stand how much it was slowing the system to a crawl).

I installed it on the POS PC here at work and while it was performing a pre-windows scan (it uses it's own mini OS for this) it found 14 files infected with Trojans that were all attached to QuickBook POS. We're not sure if the Trojans were sending people's credit card info out or not but it zapped the files. Dummy me didn't opt to put them in what avast! calls a Chest (same as quarantine). I deleted them. Then couldn't get into the POS program. I ALMOST lost the entire inventory. Shocked

Angus_rg · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject:

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:24 am Post subject:

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:25 am Post subject:

Mark_A_W · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:53 am Post subject:

Most of the time when a drive doesn't appear it's because a network drive is mapped to the same drive letter as the drive is attempting to use.