Michael, I think I know what's tgoing on. Most external hard drives have built in software which comes up immediately when you access the drive. It could be something as simple as a list of options or a password portal where you have to enter a certain string of characters to be allowed into the inner sanctum so to speak. You can select a simple program like Notepad or Wordpad and allow the program to make that kind of association. The worst that could happen would be that the displayed data couldn't be read. I believe, although I can't think how right now, that you can go into the Applications menu and reassociate certain files to be read by another program. I had to do that with some programs that were coming up in Microsoft Word Viewer instead of in Word itself.
John Justice -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Amaro Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] Question accessing ExternalHD Hello Listers, I did a complete reinstall of my windos XP Pro on my del inspiron 1525 laptop. Thinking that this would solve some of my issues. I am having trouble accessing my external HD. Every time I try to access it I get the following. D:\ This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the folder options control panel okay button. I am using jaws 9. Can some one please help? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: [email protected] For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: [email protected]
