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Format Wd Passport In Safe Mode Install Some Software

From Belarc WD 2500BEA External USB Device Hard drive (250.06 GB) -- drive 2.

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Format Wd Passport In Safe Mode Install Some Software

Last night I wanted to install some software on a Customers Vista PC.

I used the Safely Remove Hardware utility then removed the drive.

Drove to Customers house, plugged in the drive and was told Access is Denied unable to read contents of j: The drive came up as RAW - 0 bytes.

Did a chkdsk j: f v - some problems found and resolved but same Access is Denied problem.

In the end I had to reboot in Safe Mode and type the address into Explorer Bar of My Computer to copy files at Customers house.

What on earth is going on Did I eject the wrong hardware (there were 3 choices at time - generic volume, j: and WD Passport Drive - which one should I choose) Is it because I formatted the drive in NTFS.

That might account for it unless you enforced any specific permissions on the drive from your home machine.

In fact, unless the drive is set for optimized functionality in Device Manager, it has no cache and does not even need to be removed through Safely Remove.

How was the drive partitioned If it was partitioned in Vista, it has a different type than the old XP partitions used to be.

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For full accessibility in both Vista and XP, partitioning in XP may be a good idea, or use the following directions to change Vista to create the old XP partitions.

Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.

Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEYLOCALMACHINESYSTEMCURRENTCONTROLSETSERVICESVDSALIGNMENT 3.

On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD value.

Type LessThan4GB as the new entry name.

In the Edit DWORD Value dialog box, click Decimal.

In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.

Exit Registry Editor.

This problem may be caused by a error in Logical Disk Manager.

If the partition that hosts Windows Vista was created during the installation of Windows Vista, a 1-megabyte (MB) alignment boundary is created on the partition.

This alignment boundary differs from the alignment boundary that is created by Windows XP.

Therefore, when you use Windows XP to create a new partition, the different alignments may cause this problem.

XP deletes Vista created partitions due to a 1 meg boundary alignment issue.

This may also be a reason why XP cannot be installed on a system that has previously contained a Vista installation.

Vista also uses the newest version of NTFS which, of course, is alien to XP.

But the versions are updated to the correct one each time they are accessed by one of the OSs.

In other words, if you run chkdsk from XP on a Vista partition, the NTFS version will be downgraded to that of XP.

How do I set it so anyone can access ALL the files on USB WD Drive The drive does contain a lot of customers file backups.

Perhaps I have inherited permissions I doubt its a virus issue as customers PC was a fresh build 2 days ago and has AVG Free 8.0 Thanks for your help.

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