Locked Out - Access Denied - Can't get into drive

[LarryDallas]

I have ran into a problem where I can not get into 2 of my drives. I have no idea how this happened.

Running Windows 2000 with 2 IBM Drives, with 3 partitions.

I got an error message the other day that I had to change the Paging File Size. I went into Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance Options > Applications > Change.

I changed the Virtual Memory on drive "C". I then changed it on Drive "D". Then when I restarted the drives "D", "F" are seen, but there is no volume label, and the drive size is "0 MB" when before it was over 1000MB.

In the BIOS Settings both drives are seen.

When I go into a DOS command prompt and do a "DIR" on drive "D" it says "Access Denied".

Drive C is running fine, but D is unaccessable.

 

[wolluf]

Have you tried putting paging file back to how it was before?
Are you logging on with Administrator access?

btw - have you set up paging files on all 3 of your drives? If so, why?

 

[LarryDallas]

The first thing that I tried the next day was going back to the settings that I had changed. When I got there the Drive size was listed as "0 MB", and the volume label was gone.

I don't know what paging files are, but an error message popped up one day that said to increase the performance of your PC change the paging file size, so I did it. Bad move it seems.

I'm thinking it's a virus, but when I try to download software to drive D, it say access denied.

 

[firewolfrl]

you said you had 2 IBM drives. can you give what drive letter corresponds to the hard drive?
NT type systems react very bad when you install the page file to other partitions on the same drive.
did you leave a page file on C:\?


you definitely sound like you have a virus

 

[KL3942]

I have run across a situation on a Windows 2000 machine where the paging file (swap file) could not be accessed due to a permissions problem. Through Explorer, the user "System" and "administrator" had to be there for the drive with full control for rights. This allowed for modification and control over the paging file.