SP2 and external hard drive problems

I have just installed SP2 on my machine. I have a Maxtor external firewire
hard drive. Prior to installation, I have had no problems accessing the
drive. Now, when I start Windows, the drive is not accessible. It appears
with the proper drive letters in Explorer (there are two partitions on the
drive), but when I click on the drive I get the following message: "M:\ is
not accessible. The specified network resource or device is not longer
available." However, the hard drive appears in device manager and the dialog
box indicates it is worker properly. I can access the properties dialog with
no problems. When I click on the Policies tab, I can change the optimization
settings. When I do make that change, both partitions on the drive suddenly
become accessible.

I thought that the problem may be related to the new security settings in
SP2. I have tried to completely disable the firewall, but this does not seem
to have resolved the problem.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

Jim Crotteau

Have you checked with Maxtor for an updated driver or firmware that is
SP2-compliant?

"Jim Crotteau" <> wrote in message
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> I have just installed SP2 on my machine. I have a Maxtor external firewire
> hard drive. Prior to installation, I have had no problems accessing the
> drive. Now, when I start Windows, the drive is not accessible. It appears
> with the proper drive letters in Explorer (there are two partitions on the
> drive), but when I click on the drive I get the following message: "M:\
is
> not accessible. The specified network resource or device is not longer
> available." However, the hard drive appears in device manager and the
dialog
> box indicates it is worker properly. I can access the properties dialog
with
> no problems. When I click on the Policies tab, I can change the
optimization
> settings. When I do make that change, both partitions on the drive
suddenly
> become accessible.
>
> I thought that the problem may be related to the new security settings in
> SP2. I have tried to completely disable the firewall, but this does not
seem
> to have resolved the problem.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim Crotteau
>
>
>