drive disappears

[joepalm]

On my file server after the weekend my E drive disappears. I need to shut down the server and restart and it appears again.

Any thoughts

Thanks

JP

 

[wolluf]

Bit more detail would help (eg, server spec, o/s, what the E: drive is, any other oddities, what exactly you mean by 'disappears').

 

[Grincho]

Is e: drive a physical drive or a virtual drive.
and have you checked the event viewer.

ie control panel-->administrative tools.

Grincho

 

[joepalm]

The OS is NT 4.0, Pentium 111 900MHz. The E: drive is a physical drive. After weekend under MY Computer there is no E: drive. Only after power down and restart it appears again in My Computer. It is also lost on the network as a mapped drive

 

[Grincho]

Dude

once again have you checked the event viewer???

Grincho

 

[joepalm]

Yes have checked event viewer and no indication of problem with drive loss.

JP

 

[wolluf]

Run chkdsk?
Get drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility from website & run it?
Have you checked the cabling (firmly connected, not damaged) - is this SCSI or IDE drive?

 

[jbotz]

Might also check to ensure you have the latest BIOS and all Windows Updates.

-J

 

[joepalm]

Checked all cables etc and they are fine, The system does run the latest version of Disk Keeper which runs on Sundays, maybe this could be the problem. I have stopped it for this weekend.

Thanks

JP