Missing second drive

[hugh.mackie]

Hi,

I have just built a new PC with Vista Home Premium. I have two SATA
hard drives (400GB for windows etc. and 500GB for data) and an old
PATA hard drive from my previous PC.

In BIOS and Device Manager all are visible and windows says for each
"This device is working properly."

However, the 500GB is not visible in Computer etc. I don't know what
to do next. Any help gratefully received.

The build is:

Antec P150
Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi (all setting left at default)
Samsung HD401J SATA (in sata connector 1 - works OK and has windows)
Samsung HD501J SATA (in sata connector 2 - CANNOT SEE IT IN WINDOWS)
Maxtor 300GB IDE (salvaged from old PC)
DVD RW SATA
DVD ROM ATA
2GB RAM

Thanks

 

[Lee]

Hi,

I have just built a new PC with Vista Home Premium. I have two SATA
hard drives (400GB for windows etc. and 500GB for data) and an old
PATA hard drive from my previous PC.

In BIOS and Device Manager all are visible and windows says for each
"This device is working properly."

However, the 500GB is not visible in Computer etc. I don't know what
to do next. Any help gratefully received.

The build is:

Antec P150
Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi (all setting left at default)
Samsung HD401J SATA (in sata connector 1 - works OK and has windows)
Samsung HD501J SATA (in sata connector 2 - CANNOT SEE IT IN WINDOWS)
Maxtor 300GB IDE (salvaged from old PC)
DVD RW SATA
DVD ROM ATA
2GB RAM

Thanks

Is the drive partitioned and formatted?

 

[POP]

right mouse click 'computer' and choose 'manage' then click disk management,
is it seen in here.

If it is is it 'dynamic' ? , Vista sees dynamic but have experianced not
recognising an already dynamic, if convert to basic will loose all data need
to get data first.

 

[John Barnes]

Make sure you have a drive letter assigned to it in disk management or it
will not show up in Computer.

 

[Clark]

In the beta, every time I would do a search, my second SATA hard drive would
disappear. Had to reboot to get it back. I wonder if they ever got around
to fixing that problem.

Clark