I'm stumped

leezard

leezard

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I just pulled a 500GB SATA HDD from one machine and put it in another. After rebooting the drive is detected, everything looks normal until I try and double click on the drive icon under My Computer, when I do this I get an error that says

f:\
application not found

all that is on the drive are MP3's and photos

I can right click on the drive and choose explore and it opens fine, however the options in the menu when you right click are not the same as on other drives that are working fine.

when right clicking on the drive with the error my options are
Install or run a program
Browse with Ifranvies
explore (choosing this opens the drive)
open (choosing this opens the drive)

On a "normal" working drive the options are
Explore
Open
browse with Ifranview
Open autoplay
 
Not a good sign if the hard drive is dropping out on you, is the BIOS detecting the hard drive every boot or is that missing sometimes too? If that's the case, that could be a sign of a hard drive's controller (or your motherboard's controller) failing, so I would start to back up all your data on another machine by hooking the hard drive up there.
 
Run the manufacturer's diagnostic on that hard drive that might be causing issues. This needs to be the first course of action for anyone having hard drive issues or they believe their hard drive is about to die. Don't rely on S.M.A.R.T. data or statistics because they simply don't cover enough ground.

Always use the manufacturer's diagnostic utility - and get the bootable floppy or CD version if they have one and always do this from outside Windows - to run the Quick/Short as well as the Advanced/Long testing procedures and then you'll have real hard evidence of something being wrong or potentially causing a problem.
 
there is nothing wrong with the hard drive, it is/was a problem with vista
 
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