Installed Seagate 200GB in New HP Vista Machine - No drive Letter??

[JohnSk]

Hope you can help. I took a IDE 200GB drive from my old machine and
installed it my new Vista HP Pavilion a6230n for backup/storage. The a6230n
came with a SATA drive (400GB). I used the IDE connection on the
motherboard for the 200GB drive and tried Cable Select, Master, and Slave.
Problem is that I can not get the 200GB drive to show-up when I click on the
"Computer" icon. I can see C:/, and D:/. I see the drive in "Computer
Management" and "Disk Management" and can change the Letter designator when
ever I want. The drive in qestion show status as Healthy (Active, Primary
Partition). I tried reformating the drive and selecting a different drive
letter. Setting up two partitions then changing it back to one. Still no
drive leter showing up for this drive when I click on the Computer Icon on
my desktop. I can type the drive letter "L:/" into the address bar at the
top of the open folder and I see the drive and it's contents. Tried calling
Seagate Cutomer Service to no avail. Soooooo, any ideas out there??? Thanks
inadvance..... JohnS

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Check your manual for the BIOS settings that will enable both PATA and SATA.

 

[JohnSk]

All, Interesting how this issue was resolved....

While my wife was working on the computer the system crashed. I asked her
to leave it along until I got home. When I got home I rebooted the computer
ans started checking the computer to include clicking on the "computer"
icon. Well, I could now see all my drives - SATA and PATA!! Problem
solved....

Anyone have any idea what may have happened to solve this problem?

JohnSk