2nd Hard Drive now showing up.

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Hey, I was wondering if anybody could help. After I installed vista, i
was unable to see my 2nd 320GB drive. However I installed vista on
another drive identical to make and model and vista boots fine. WHen
I check Device Manager it shows up (And "The device is working
properly"...heh). This drive worked perfectly before installing XP.
Also if you go to Manage Disks. It shows, but it wants to format it
to a Basic disc. I believe XP formatted it as a Dynamic not sure if
that would effect. Plus I do not want to format the drive. I tried to
check to see if there is a new driver, there is not. I am completely
out of ideas. Is there anyway I can get the drive to work?

Also a Side note: It does shows up the BIOS, and i booted into a Linux
Live CD (Thank you SLAX), and I was able to browse the hard drive. So
it does work.



Thanks in advanced
 
Hey, I was wondering if anybody could help. After I installed vista, i
was unable to see my 2nd 320GB drive. However I installed vista on
another drive identical to make and model and vista boots fine. WHen
I check Device Manager it shows up (And "The device is working
properly"...heh). This drive worked perfectly before installing XP.
Also if you go to Manage Disks. It shows, but it wants to format it
to a Basic disc. I believe XP formatted it as a Dynamic not sure if
that would effect. Plus I do not want to format the drive. I tried to
check to see if there is a new driver, there is not. I am completely
out of ideas. Is there anyway I can get the drive to work?

Also a Side note: It does shows up the BIOS, and i booted into a Linux
Live CD (Thank you SLAX), and I was able to browse the hard drive. So
it does work.



Thanks in advanced
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Basically it is just Windows being dumb. It would do the same thing in
XP sometimes. My MB on this box died a couple months ago. That's the
only reason I upgraded to Vista now. Anyway when I rebuild my system
still in XP it didn't accept one of my drives either. Like you it was
seen in BIOS and Device Manager said no problems, yet again like you
it wasn't detected correctly by Disk Management, in fact it said I had
0 bytes used and asked if I wanted to format. I didn't because I had
lots of data on it. I just popped it in another computer to confirm
there was nothing wrong with the drive and there wasn't.

I didn't waste any more time messing with it, I just copied the
contents while it was connected to a 2nd computer, then moved that to
an external drive. I then let Windoze format the drive, then finally
moved my data back. A royal pain. Never did find out what caused the
problem, so sorry no solutions other than to do something similar to
what I did.
 
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