hdd not showing in windows

e36Adz · 24 Dec 2008 at 20:13

After just formatting my PC and installing vista 64, I have now connected my other 2 hard drives up, both are 1TB western digital drives.

In windows however, only 1 drive is showing up. I have tried different SATA cables but same problem. Both drives are showing in the bios, why isn't it showing in windows?

Steves_pc · 24 Dec 2008 at 20:34

Is it showing in vista's device manager, Didnt happen to have 1 setup as a dynamic disk on xp?

e36Adz · 24 Dec 2008 at 20:50

Steves_pc said:
Is it showing in vista's device manager, Didnt happen to have 1 setup as a dynamic disk on xp?

I was previously using Vista 64 as well, and both drives were showing up fine. In device manager both drives are there! Any ideas?

maddness · 24 Dec 2008 at 20:55

might not have a drive letter assigned to that drive, right click on desktop icon, click on manage, disk management, (if its showing there) select the drive, right click on drive - change drive letter / path (see what its showing) you change the drive letter

brb

e36Adz · 24 Dec 2008 at 21:00

<maddness> said:
might not have a drive letter assigned to that drive, right click on desktop icon, click on manage, disk management, (if its showing there) select the drive, right click on drive - change drive letter / path (see what its showing) you change the drive letter

brb

The drive is not showing in there however, there is a disk there which is showing as 'Dynamic' and if I want to convert it to Basic it says data may be lost, but its a 1TB storage drive with loads of stuff on it!

Steves_pc said:
Is it showing in vista's device manager, Didnt happen to have 1 setup as a dynamic disk on xp?

Looks like it is showing as dynamic, any way I can get this showing up without wiping it clean?

e36Adz · 24 Dec 2008 at 21:32

Instead of 'convert to basic disk' I ran the other option 'import foreign disk' and the drive is now showing although its still showing as dynamic, I don't care as the data is all still there

Steves_pc · 24 Dec 2008 at 21:57

Glad it's sorted, only a guess but it was a "been there done that" and then it was only accidental - kind of :rolleyes:

The only way i got mine back to normal was move the stuff off and then nuke it.