Windows won't acknowledge hard drive.

[Dennis]

CMOS shows it is there but Windows XP SP3 dose not list the drive
in My Computer.
It is a Western Digital 20 gig hard drive. It is plugged in as a
secondary master. I've tried putting on jumpers to make it a slave
and I've tried cable select on the hard drive. Neither setting
makes a difference. The hard drive is running.

 

[Mark Adams]

CMOS shows it is there but Windows XP SP3 dose not list the drive
in My Computer.
It is a Western Digital 20 gig hard drive. It is plugged in as a
secondary master. I've tried putting on jumpers to make it a slave
and I've tried cable select on the hard drive. Neither setting
makes a difference. The hard drive is running.

It may not be showing because it needs to be formatted. Set the jumper as
"cable select" and attach to the second connector on the IDE cable. You want
it to be a slave for formatting. Go into "Disk Management" and see if it's
visible there. Format it and assign it a drive letter, then check "My
Computer". It should be there now.

 

[Dennis]

That is of course if the harddrive is new and/or does not contain any
data you don't want to loose.

It is a hard drive with data I'm trying to save for someone. It don't
look good. I have Hard Drive Regenerator checking it now and it found
the first 1000 sectors bad with none recovered so far. This may be the
first hard drive out of about twenty that this program didn't fix.
I don't know what happened to it when it was in the original computer.
I was just told there was some gospel music this lady wanted to salvage
if possible.

 

[Mark Adams]

It is a hard drive with data I'm trying to save for someone. It don't
look good. I have Hard Drive Regenerator checking it now and it found
the first 1000 sectors bad with none recovered so far. This may be the
first hard drive out of about twenty that this program didn't fix.
I don't know what happened to it when it was in the original computer.
I was just told there was some gospel music this lady wanted to salvage
if possible.

Go to the website of the hard drive manufacturer and download their drive
checking utilities. If it passes the test, you may be able to recover data
off of it by slaving it into a host computer and using data recovery
software. Also try booting the host computer with a Knoppix disk. If it can
read the drive, you should be able to copy the music files.