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Win7 laptop cannot access drive from WinXP machine via USB drive dock.
(I apologize in advance if this post isn't in the correct category. I couldn't see where to put it.)
Problem: Win7 laptop cannot access drive from WinXP machine via USB drive dock.
Background: I have a WinXP desktop machine with a hard drive that may have a virus/trojan/rootkit/etc. Normal scans on the WinXP machine with MSE or ThreatFire have not discovered the problem. But the best way to scan a drive is to remove it and treat it as a purely 'dummy' data drive plugged into a usb drive dock and run the scan from a clean machine. This way any infected programs and/or O.S. on the drive will have no control to mask or hide themselves.
My other computer is an HP Win7 laptop. So I removed the hard drive from the WinXP machine and via the USB drive dock and the Win7 laptop saw the WinXP drive icon appear. However, double-clicking that icon results in the popup window message:
"Location is not available.
J:\ is not accessible.
Access is denied."
Yet, on the Win7 laptop, clicking through "Administrative Tools", "Computer Management", "Drive Management", shows that the WinXP drive is recognized and 'healthy', i.e.
"MAIN (J:) Simple Basic NTFS Healthy (Active, Primary Partition)
Online."
(I tried to show helpful little screen captures of these messages for you, but the forum appears to delete them prior to posting.)
So why can't the WinXP hard drive be accessed and read by a Win7 computer?
NOTE: If I plug this USB drive dock into the WinXP computer then I can read the drive's files just fine. Also, the USB ports on the Win7 computer are fine. I use them often for various things.
A small mystery . . .
Thank you for your input!
- William1415
Last edited by William1415; 13 Oct 2012 at 15:34.