Hard Drive Missing

[Guest]

I have 4 hard drives on my computer. 2 are setup in a raid on my sata
connections. They are fine. I have 2 drives on my ide along with 2 dvd
burners. 1 of the hard drives mounted on the slave secondary ide channel is
not showing up in windows anywhere. I have tried the disk console. I have use
chkdsk. I have tried typing in the drive letter in explorer. Not there. I
even used the fsutil fsinfo drivers command. My intel board does show the
drive when i enter the bios. Windows just doesn't see my drive.

Any Help?

 

[DL]

If the bios doesnt detect the drive, either the connections are
loose/failed, the hd has failed, or possibly the pwr supply is not up to the
load.
Untill the bios detects the drive win has no chance.

 

[Guest]

If the BIOS can see the drive, but windows cannot, then the drive is possibly
formatted with an unrecognised format. Try formattign the unavailable drive.
I found this quite by accident, when a local tried to fix computers in his
spare time, and he "Lost" several peoples second hard drive. All that he had
done was format them with OS2 fomat , Also,Try running "fdisk" and see what
the partitions are. It may not have a partition on it windows recognises
like a logical drive. You may need a utility like partition magic depending

 

[Guest]

May be a jumper issue or the drive might have slipped into PIO mode..? The
optical drive on the 2nd IDE channel is working, it's jumpers are set to what
M, S, or CS..?
You don't mention whether the HDD jumper is set to master (M), slave (S), or
computer select (CS), could be the data cable is lose too.. DL's post is
right on the money as far as possible cause & affect too..
Cheers
j;-j

 

[Guest]

Where does windows hide fdisk these days? I tried it under a cmd prompt. Not
there. Is it in the "safe mode with command prompt? Or do i need to find a
copy on the net somewhere?

 

[Guest]

Why do you think you need fdisk for XP..?
http://www.google.com/search?q=fdisk
Cheers
j;-j

 

[Anna]

I have 4 hard drives on my computer. 2 are setup in a raid on my sata
connections. They are fine. I have 2 drives on my ide along with 2 dvd
burners. 1 of the hard drives mounted on the slave secondary ide channel
is
not showing up in windows anywhere. I have tried the disk console. I have
use
chkdsk. I have tried typing in the drive letter in explorer. Not there. I
even used the fsutil fsinfo drivers command. My intel board does show the
drive when i enter the bios. Windows just doesn't see my drive.

Any Help?

volleygod...
In addition to some of the suggestions you've already received...

It's conceivable that you're dealing with a defective HDD. The fact that
it's detected in the BIOS is not an absolute indication that it's
non-defective. So check out the health of the HDD with a diagnostic utility
you can generally download from the website of the disk's manufacturer.

Also, have you tried connecting the drive to another IDE channel, either
Primary or Secondary? Same problem?

Also, you might try disconnecting the problem HDD from the system, booting
up, shutting down, and then re:connecting the HDD and see if the drive is
then recognized by the OS.
Anna

 

[Zilbandy]

You don't mention whether the HDD jumper is set to master (M), slave (S), or
computer select (CS)

CS stands for "cable select."

 

[Zilbandy]

I have tried the disk console. I have use
chkdsk. I have tried typing in the drive letter in explorer. Not there. I
even used the fsutil fsinfo drivers command. My intel board does show the
drive when i enter the bios. Windows just doesn't see my drive.

Is the drive formatted?

 

[Guest]

The HD is on the slave side and i have the jumper set to Slave. The drive had
been working for a couple of weeks before this stunt.

 

[Guest]

volleygod...
In addition to some of the suggestions you've already received...

It's conceivable that you're dealing with a defective HDD. The fact that
it's detected in the BIOS is not an absolute indication that it's
non-defective. So check out the health of the HDD with a diagnostic utility
you can generally download from the website of the disk's manufacturer.

Also, have you tried connecting the drive to another IDE channel, either
Primary or Secondary? Same problem?

Also, you might try disconnecting the problem HDD from the system, booting
up, shutting down, and then re:connecting the HDD and see if the drive is
then recognized by the OS.
Anna

Tried differnt IDE channel. I put it on the Primary and it didn't help.

 

[Guest]

Is the drive formatted?

Yes the drive is formated. At least when last used it was. Is there any
reason Windows will mess up the format?