Hard disk drive disappeared!

[Guest]

My primary slave HDD just up and vanished on me. It's recognized properly by
the BIOS and accessible from a DOS prompt. It doesn't show up in Windows
Explorer, Device Manager, or Disk Management. The primary master drive shows
up fine. There is a vacant drive letter available. Any ideas where it went?

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

My primary slave HDD just up and vanished on me. It's recognized properly by
the BIOS and accessible from a DOS prompt. It doesn't show up in Windows
Explorer, Device Manager, or Disk Management. The primary master drive shows
up fine. There is a vacant drive letter available. Any ideas where it went?

Try this: "How to Restore the Operating System to a Previous State in
Windows XP" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306084).

 

[neil]

Try disk management "diskmgmt.msc" from the run command. Then re-allocate
the drive letter for the slave drive.

Neil

 

[Guest]

Can't reassign a drive letter since Windows doesn't see the drive. As far as
Windows is concerned it doesn't exist.

 

[neil]

Sorry my mistake, my brain very neatly skipped the bit about "doesn't show
in device manager".

I guess you've not changed any hardware, & when you say a DOS prompt is that
within windows or a boot floppy or something else. Could you try a system
restore ??

Neil