Re-enabling hard drive??

[Guest]

any help appreciated.....
One of my hard drives (D, was randomly triggering the 'autorun' window to
appear. As I couldn't work out why and because I was experiencing short
lock-ups on my machine that started at roughly the same time, I decided to
disable this harddrive in device manager to see if this fixed the lock-ups.
It didn't, so I thought I would simply go back to device manager and
re-enable the drive. Its vanished from the list. I've looked in admin
tools/disk management and theres no sign of it there either.

 

[Rich Barry]

Bazza, did you try a restart? Let WinXP reinstall it.

 

[Guest]

I have restarted many times to no avail. I have recently noticed that the
drive no longer appears in the bios. It is a sata drive. The 2 IDE drives are
there and the Sata C: drive obviously is there but no mention of, or any way
of scanning for the secondary Sata drive that I disabled in XP. I have
disabled hardware before in order to problem solve, but it was always there
to be re-enabled after. I understood that disabling in device manager only
meant that XP wouldn't use the hardware. I cant understand how it could
disappear from the bios.

 

[Dave B.]

You need to look at the hardware side of your problem, if the drive isn't
being detected in BIOS, Windows isn't going to see it. Check connections,
BIOS settings, etc.

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