lost drive

[russell sullivan]

I recently reinstalled XP and now one of my drives is missing from MY
COMPUTER , 'e' shows but my 'f' drive the one I use to burn diskd etc doesnt
show and is not recognized.Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Sparda]

I recently reinstalled XP and now one of my drives is missing
from MY
COMPUTER , 'e' shows but my 'f' drive the one I use to burn
diskd etc doesnt
show and is not recognized.Any ideas?

Thanks

"lost drive"

Where did you last put it?

Sorry... It’s just too tempting, any way. Dose the missing drive
show up in device manger and disk manager? (Access disk man by right
click my computer > manage go to storage > disk management)

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I recently reinstalled XP and now one of my drives is missing from MY
COMPUTER , 'e' shows but my 'f' drive the one I use to burn diskd etc
doesnt show and is not recognized.Any ideas?

Seen in the BIOS?

 

[russell sullivan]

BIOS? please explain , simply. thanks

 

[russell sullivan]

Not there its normally 'F' and only E and D are shown which is my dvdrom
drive and my Iomega drive

 

[Shenan Stanley]

BIOS? please explain , simply. thanks

I cannot get more "simply"..

BIOS is the hardware recognition level - before any OS loads.. When you
first turn on your computer you should see a message about "Press XXX to
enter System Setup" or some similar wording (look in your manuals.) It is
loaded before you ever see anything about Windows...

 

[russell sullivan]

It may seem simple to you but sadly it aint to me , probably why Im asking
and youre answering.please explain in idiot proof way.

Thanks

 

[Shenan Stanley]

It may seem simple to you but sadly it aint to me , probably why Im
asking and youre answering.please explain in idiot proof way.

Turn off computer.
Turn on the computer.
If some "advertisement page" comes up - press ESC (top left of your
keyboard.)
Look for some message at the bottom of the screen before Windows ever starts
loading informing you how to "Enter System Setup" or "Enter System BIOS" or
some working like that. Whatever key/combination of keys it says to press,
do so.. Quickly.

If Windows starts to load - you are too late. You will have to wait
(preferrably) until Windows starts up again and shutdown (turn off) again
and try again.

More than likely you have to press DEL, F1 or F2.

Once in the BIOS, look around for your drive configurations and see if you
can see where the system *sees* each of your drives. if the hardware isn't
seen here - it's not going to be seen in Windows.