c:\ is not accessesible. more info will be listed.?

Question

Ok i have recently had a hdd fail do to power surge. i can use the old drive how ever it is limited be for it just stops working. so i went and bout a new hdd(barracuda 160g). i installed xp from a disk that i had for a different pc. then i went about installing the drivers and what not to the drive. i also had moved most of the data from the old drive to the new one with out it lockingup.i had restarted the pc several times no problem. i went about installing more drivers that were not moved over in the ms-dos xcopy transfer. i went on to move more of the files over by explorer. no probles yet. i shut it down as i was mad that i had no why to install more drivers via the net at this time. so i start it up the next day to find out that i could not accesses my c:\(drive) but i could manage to install windows updates because i found out i was not brocasting my ssid and thats why i was not getting online. but i still could not gain accesses to the c:\(drive). any ideas to fix this?

i can not see how much drive space is used or how much space there is. i may have over writen some software\scripts\drivers and\or placed multipule copies or dll's that are for the old hdd.

Answer 1

Does Windows boot up at all, or does the BIOS tell you that it cannot access the C drive?

If you used xcopy to transfer drivers and dll's from the old drive to the new drive, you may have inadvertently transferred corrupted files to the new drive and thus not allowing you to access the new drive. Even if you transfer the drivers to the correct folder location, they still need to be installed into the registry for the hardware to work, a blind copy could have removed information needed by Windows. Try reinstalling Windows, and then manually transfer the data to a new folder on the drive, from there install your needed hardware and move your data to the folders you wish it to be in.