window explorer does not show all drives; please help

[ubamous3]

hi, i ran in to these strange propblems with windows explorer. i have win2k pro on all my computers on the LAN.

1/ recently when i mapped a network drive, it doesnt show up in window explorer afterwards; i can see it being mapped correctly; plus it's not a connectivity issue b/c another drive on that remote computer is mapped and works fine;plus, i can get to the unseen drive browsing through my network neighborhood fine; this happens with 2 computers that i tried to remap recently;

2/ i had alcohol once before and it crated a virtual drive; yet after i uninstall alcohol, it still there; i m not sure how to get rid of that virtual drive

3/ i just installed a dvdburner on the 2nd ide channel as master, the current cd burner remains on ide2 as slave; well, when i reboot, it doesnt see the new drive in windows explorer, but i can see that drive in MMC's disk management and from nero as well as in the BIOS, so i dont know what's going on there

i dont know if it's harddisk issue , virus, too much heat, etc...; tried adaware, ran antivirus, spybot s&d but still same problem

has anyone seen similar problems?

thanks

 

[scarecrow]

1/ Check the access permissions on the "other" computer.
2/ Control panel/system/ browse to find your SCSI devices, and disable/uninstall/delete, whatever you ilke the Alcohol virtual SCSI adapter. The Alcohol drive will dissapear.
3/ Run "Nero Registry Checker" from Ahead's FTP6, or use a better burning application (the last one is the choice of preference).

 

[ubamous3]

1/ Check the access permissions on the "other" computer.
2/ Control panel/system/ browse to find your SCSI devices, and disable/uninstall/delete, whatever you ilke the Alcohol virtual SCSI adapter. The Alcohol drive will dissapear.
3/ Run "Nero Registry Checker" from Ahead's FTP6, or use a better burning application (the last one is the choice of preference).

hi scarecrow,
thanks so much for responding

1/ yes, the other computer does have max shares on all the partitions; plus, other computers can access everything
2/ i will try your suggestion about alcolhol virtualdrive n post back

3/ at first i thought it's installed incorrectly, but it's recognized in bios and when i use aida32, it does show up on there too so i think it's this computer going haywire

 

[ubamous3]

ok, i got the alcohol drive removed; thanks to scarecrow

i still have problem with the mapped network drives not remembering even when i just remap it and still can't see the the dvd burner drive through window explorer (but i can see it from the console, however)

 

[Duracell]

and still can't see the the dvd burner drive through window explorer

check Windows' drive management if a drive letter is assigned;
And have you used something like TweakUI to hide specific drives?

Greetings from
Duracell

 

[ubamous3]

thanks duracell

no, i dont use tweakui

i got win explorer to see the burner drive now when i changed the drive letter from window's generated drive J to Y (i have 5 multi HD computers at home so i am almost running out of alphabet ); dont ask me the logic in how changing from J to Y works but it works thank god but it still didnt see the 2 other networked partitions tho (even tho i can see it through network neightborhood and can create a shortcut on the desktop)

that HD seemed to act funky for a while now but i wasnt sure if it's virus related, HD related or OS related

and now it's not bootable;
http://www.dvdrbase.com/showthread.php?t=40080

i initially thought it was HD going bad but i connected ti to another computer as slave and ran chkdsk /f /r but it found no errors,so i connected it back to the original computer and still freezes; i can't boot in safe mode but i can boot from the installation CD

my next step will be trying memtest to see if it might be RAM related; i'll try all i can before i have to format 'cause there's a lot of data and programs on it

i hope u can provide some insight on this, please please , i can hope

thank u

btw, i have win2k pro SP3

 

[Duracell]

i got win explorer to see the burner drive now when i changed the drive letter from window's generated drive J to Y (i have 5 multi HD computers at home so i am almost running out of alphabet ); dont ask me the logic in how changing from J to Y works but it works thank god

this looks like a typical syndrome of some hiding/tuning software; me thinks it's the same problem with your network neighbors;
but only you know what software you installed/tried;

about your HDD problem i will reply there;