external hard drive "not ready"

If the drive is an external SCSI disk then the driver for the SCSI Card will need to be loaded - else the adaptors driver for the connector - if this doesn't answer your Q - how does it connect to your computer

if the drive is an external SCSI disk then the driver for the SCSI Card will need to be loaded - else the adaptors driver for the connector - if this doesn't answer your Q - how does it connect to your computer

other scsi devices are working just fine on this configuation.  it appears the partition might be lost.  can i recover the data without repartitioning the drive?  there is no drive letter assignment although the drive is recognized at the boot up and scsi address is verified ok.

You should be able to get some data off the hard drive, however the intgerity of the data may be questionable.

What file system is on the drive partition?
What operating systems have you tried using to access the partition?
Have you tried connecting this drive to a different machine?

Note: If you happen to have formatted the partition as NTFS, FAT32, or some Unix file systems, you will not be able to access the partition from every OS.

HOW can i get the data off if i can't get any computer to assign a drive letter to the drive?  how do i gain access to the drive?

i have hooked the drive up to numerous stations with the same problem result.  i have tried dos, win3.1, win95. . none can access the data.

the drive contains about 30,000 tiff g4 images scanned under win95.  there is no complex directory structure.

If it was set up as a removeable drive in windows 95, try booting in safe mode, locating the drive in the device manager and deleting it. Then when you reboot it may be redetected.

I have found that the drive letter in the DM can point to an already used drive letter effectivley hiding my removeable scsi drive or cd.