New drives added but not appearing

[Guest]

I have added a second hard drive & a removeable USB flash drive to my computer.

Both show as working properly in Device Manager, and also in Disk
Management. However, neither will show in My Computer, where I wish to access
them.

The jumpers are correct, the cables are correct & the Bios is correct.

Can anyone shed any light on this problem please?...

 

[Thomas Wendell]

Have you checked in disk management (diskmgmt.msc). If they are there, are
they a)partitioned and formatted
and/or b)are they given drive letters?


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[Bob I]

In Disk Management, perform any needed formatting and drive letter
assignment.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I have added a second hard drive & a removeable USB flash drive to my computer.

Both show as working properly in Device Manager, and also in Disk
Management. However, neither will show in My Computer, where I wish to access
them.

The jumpers are correct, the cables are correct & the Bios is correct.

Can anyone shed any light on this problem please?...
.

 

[George]

Have you tried partitioning your new drives first then
formatting them from my computer?

 

[Guest]

Yes...both have been partitioned & formatted.

Both also show drive letters.

 

[Guest]

I am having the same problem as you, fwdoz. I recently bought a Samsung 40GB
external hard drive and when I first formatted it, assigned drive letters etc
it worked fine for about 3 weeks then all of a sudden it got moody, only
detected sometimes. At first I thought there was something wrong with the
external hard drive, but then I tried using it on another computer and it
worked fine so I'm thinking it could be a compatability problem with my
computer. What computer are you using ? Mine is a Compaq Evo N610c.

 

[Guest]

Hi bailey...

I am using just a IBM compatible, made with top quality parts. I spent a lot
of time with my workmates yesterday (we are all PC Tech Salesperson...you
think we could solve this!)...

One thing we tried is with the cables that connect the hard drives. If you
have UDMA drives, change to 80 pin cables instead of 40's. It did'nt fix the
issue, but resulted in a big speed fix.

We seem to think it is any one of 3 issues:
1: dust in the IDE connector ports or a problem with the IDE port.
2: windows XP issue
3: a BIOS upgrade is needed

They were all stumped after they thought I was a dumbarse, but it's not me
as they have no idea either!

But this is certainly driving a few of us nuts figuring it out.

 

[Guest]

I also have this problem. I'm amazed that Microsoft hasn't come up with a
solution yet. In fact, they seem unaware of the problem. Let me review the
symptoms....

1) My problem occurs with both an external backup hard drive and a 20 Gig
MP3 player that should appear as a hard disk.

2) Both drives show up in the Disk Management application, and appear
perfectly normal there. In fact, if I right click on one of the external
drives and select "Explore" from the context menu, the external drive will
appear in the folders list of the resulting Windows Explorer window.

3) If I open "My Computer", Windows Explorer", or any other application t
that loads and saves files, neither of the external drives appear in the list
of drives.

4) If I open a DOS box, and "cd" to the drive letter of one of the invisable
drives, that works.

It seems that XP sees the external drives and some fundamental level, but it
is not reporting that information to applications that request a list of
existing partitions.

 

[Bob I]

Try TweakUI.

I also have this problem. I'm amazed that Microsoft hasn't come up with a
solution yet. In fact, they seem unaware of the problem. Let me review the
symptoms....

1) My problem occurs with both an external backup hard drive and a 20 Gig
MP3 player that should appear as a hard disk.

2) Both drives show up in the Disk Management application, and appear
perfectly normal there. In fact, if I right click on one of the external
drives and select "Explore" from the context menu, the external drive will
appear in the folders list of the resulting Windows Explorer window.

3) If I open "My Computer", Windows Explorer", or any other application t
that loads and saves files, neither of the external drives appear in the list
of drives.

4) If I open a DOS box, and "cd" to the drive letter of one of the invisable
drives, that works.

It seems that XP sees the external drives and some fundamental level, but it
is not reporting that information to applications that request a list of
existing partitions.

:

 

[Guest]

I have added a second hard drive & a removeable USB flash drive to my computer.

Both show as working properly in Device Manager, and also in Disk
Management. However, neither will show in My Computer, where I wish to access
them.

The jumpers are correct, the cables are correct & the Bios is correct.

Can anyone shed any light on this problem please?...

Just to throw my 2 cents into this solution, my work computer running WIN XP
Pro - 3.4Ghz - 1 Gig Ram, was doing the same thing. My Memorex 256MB Flash
Drive would install and it would appear in the Disk Management and Device
Manager but not in My Computer. I am networked to several drives, and found
out that my Flash Drive was taking the drive letter of one of the network
drives. So there was a conflict, and it wasn't until I assigned my Flash
Drive it's own drive letter (Z) that it appeared and I was able to access the
data on it.

mrmultimediaman
San Diego, Ca.