Dude, I work in IT for a living and I couldn't explain Vista to you. This is what I tell my users right before I remove Vista in favor of XP, which I do far more than I install it. The proper name needs to be Windows Millenium, Vista Edition.
I hate to defend Vista, and I know nothing about your particular hard drive or software, but a few things might be going on. It sounds to me like something is interfering with the driver being used to mount the drive, so it could be a virus, malware, or an incompatible driver. Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and kill anything that shouldn't be there; services missing a description should be the first to arouse suspicions.
Try accessing the drive from the command prompt - go to Start, type "cmd", then hit Ctrl-Shift-Enter: this will bring up a command prompt in Administrator mode. If you can access D: that way, copy your shit from D to somewhere safe via command line (command is copy ). A good candidate would be an external hard drive
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I hate to defend Vista, and I know nothing about your particular hard drive or software, but a few things might be going on. It sounds to me like something is interfering with the driver being used to mount the drive, so it could be a virus, malware, or an incompatible driver. Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and kill anything that shouldn't be there; services missing a description should be the first to arouse suspicions.
Try accessing the drive from the command prompt - go to Start, type "cmd", then hit Ctrl-Shift-Enter: this will bring up a command prompt in Administrator mode. If you can access D: that way, copy your shit from D to somewhere safe via command line (command is copy ). A good candidate would be an external hard drive ( ... )
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