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Creo cannot access hard drive.

Creo cannot access hard drive.

Creo cannot access hard drive.

(OP)
This is very strange. A new one I have never seen with any program. Creo 3 can see all the computer's drives and can access them all...except one. The D:\ drive. It recognizes that it is there, but when I try to access it, it thinks it is empty and the folder/file list is blank. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing Creo, to no avail. Reboots do not solve the problem. Could an environmental variable be the culprit?

RE: Creo cannot access hard drive.

Have you tried text files? You can open them with the config options editor.

Typically the only files/directories PTC Parametric doesn't see are ones with spaces and capitalized letters.

RE: Creo cannot access hard drive.

(OP)
Text files no go. To Creo, D:\ looks like a newly formatted drive with nothing on it yet. Creo 2 and all other programs see the contents just fine. F'ing weird.

RE: Creo cannot access hard drive.

(OP)
Damn...Frustrating that you can't edit posts here. I meant to say:

"Text files no go. To Creo THREE, D:\ looks like a newly formatted drive with nothing on it yet. Creo 2 and all other programs see the contents just fine. F'ing weird."

RE: Creo cannot access hard drive.

(OP)
Playing with this further, I discovered that if I went to the recent files list in Creo 3 (which apparently comes from a common file to all Creo products and versions), I can open a file on d:\ that way (My recent files list only contains old Creo 2 part files). But if I try to save it back to d:\, I get:
"Error writing file. Check disk space or write permission."

I have plenty of disk space and the permissions have not changed, and are identical to those of my f:\ drive which Creo sees just fine.

The only differences between these two drives are:
1. Drive d:\ is a logical partition on a physical drive that also contains my primary c:\ partition.
2. Drive f:\ is the only partition on a separate physical drive.
3. Drive d:\ is over 1TB in size. c:\ and f:\ are easily under 1Tb.

RE: Creo cannot access hard drive.

(OP)
And one other curious tidbit.

I found that if I change my working directory in Creo 3 to some folder on d:\, that all works fine...So long as I do not go up the directories back to root d:\. I can open and save anything fine on d:\ so long as I do not try to access the root directory.

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