Missing Disc drive???

[Ian Tranter]

For some strange reason my 2nd HDD became invisible to
windows?
I am Running WIN-XP pro & use a 2nd disc to keep all my
files, games. etc on.
Today, when I started the PC it took a while to start up
which was strange. I then noticed that the Back-up drive
(my 2nd disc) was missing????
Device manager says that it's there & displays the name
of the drive with the correct drivers assigned to it, but
the drive does not appear in MYCOMPUTER.
I have downloaded a utility from the HDD manufacturer's
site & tested the drive which passes all the tests & says
I have a healthy HDD, EH?
When the PC boots up the drive is auto detected & appears
in the list of drives found.

Anyone know what is going on here as I have run out of
Ideas???

P.S.
I have not changed anything or installed any programs
prior to this happening nor is the disc drive full.

 

[Rich Barry]

Ian, go to Control Panel>AdminTools>Computer Manage>Disk Manage. See if
it shows up there and if
yes try to assign it a drive letter.

 

[Guest]

Rich,
Drive does not exist in disc management, even tried a
rescan of system???

 

[Rich Barry]

Maybe you can try replacing the IDE ribbon cable or moving the second
drive to a different IDE channel
Secondary is good.