Hi can anyone offer a solution to this conundrum please.
I have three HDD's on my computer the third E: drive being used solely for backups. This weekend I set Ghost away to make an image of my C: drive so I could do some housekeeping. I left it going overnight and next morning was greeted with an error from Ghost saying it could not complete image.
When I went into My Computer the E:drive was absent from the screen only C: & D: were there. In the system device manager however all drives were present and appeared to be working OK. No matter what I tried I could not access my E: drive.
Then my computer would fail to boot up, it would go through the CD drives to try to boot but get no further and there was nothing on the screen. However if I left the computer off for 5 mins it would boot up as if nothing had happened, if I left it less than 5 minutes it would get to the boot up screen which allows 'press [TAB] to show POST screen [DEL] to enter set up' and freeze. Also it does not respond to a warm boot up.
I have tried unistalling the E: drive from device manager and shutting down computer and booting up to no avail same missing E: drive. I have even disconneted the E:drive from its lead within the computer as well as unistalling through device manager. Re booting in windows then shutting down re-connecting the HDD lead and re-booting no show of E:drive on My Computer screen but again it appears in device manager.
I even went as far as putting my windows CD in the CD drive and installing a new system onto the E:drive which was recognized by Windows install programme. However as computer will not warm re-boot this took some time and when it finalised and I managed to reboot using the NEW Windows OS it asked for a password -as I have not registered a password I pressed to move on but it reported 'The System cannot log you on due to the following error: The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted' and that was the end of that.
Sorry this is so long chaps but you can see that I have tried a few things to get the damned thing working. I am not technical at all as far as hardware is concerned all I want to do is switch the b****y thing on and get on with my work.
So if anyone can offer any advice it would be so gratefully received.
regards
I have three HDD's on my computer the third E: drive being used solely for backups. This weekend I set Ghost away to make an image of my C: drive so I could do some housekeeping. I left it going overnight and next morning was greeted with an error from Ghost saying it could not complete image.
When I went into My Computer the E:drive was absent from the screen only C: & D: were there. In the system device manager however all drives were present and appeared to be working OK. No matter what I tried I could not access my E: drive.
Then my computer would fail to boot up, it would go through the CD drives to try to boot but get no further and there was nothing on the screen. However if I left the computer off for 5 mins it would boot up as if nothing had happened, if I left it less than 5 minutes it would get to the boot up screen which allows 'press [TAB] to show POST screen [DEL] to enter set up' and freeze. Also it does not respond to a warm boot up.
I have tried unistalling the E: drive from device manager and shutting down computer and booting up to no avail same missing E: drive. I have even disconneted the E:drive from its lead within the computer as well as unistalling through device manager. Re booting in windows then shutting down re-connecting the HDD lead and re-booting no show of E:drive on My Computer screen but again it appears in device manager.
I even went as far as putting my windows CD in the CD drive and installing a new system onto the E:drive which was recognized by Windows install programme. However as computer will not warm re-boot this took some time and when it finalised and I managed to reboot using the NEW Windows OS it asked for a password -as I have not registered a password I pressed to move on but it reported 'The System cannot log you on due to the following error: The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted' and that was the end of that.
Sorry this is so long chaps but you can see that I have tried a few things to get the damned thing working. I am not technical at all as far as hardware is concerned all I want to do is switch the b****y thing on and get on with my work.
So if anyone can offer any advice it would be so gratefully received.
regards