Hard Disk Failed

yellowputty · 5 Aug 2006 at 15:36

Hey,

I could spend ages telling you a long story right now, but I won't. Basically I have a 250Gb SATA Drive that I only use for storage. After I formatted my other drive with Windows on, I found that I couldn't access this 250Gb drive.

It recognises it in the BIOS, the correct name and size, and it sounds like it's spinning fine. I went into Administrative tools, and it recognised the drive there, but it says "Failed". I'm sure this doesn't matter, but sometime before I formatted my other drive, I accidentally disabled the 250Gb drive in the BIOS (But soon enabled it again).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

yellowputty · 5 Aug 2006 at 16:30

Edit: It actually says "Missing"

noxidjkram@hotm · 5 Aug 2006 at 19:07

Can you see it in Disk Management?

Right-click My Computer and choose Manage - its one of the options in there.

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mctiny · 5 Aug 2006 at 20:31

yellowputty said:
Edit: It actually says "Missing"

reconnect it and the goto diskmanagement and try to inatilize ir/ import foriegn disk.

yellowputty · 12 Aug 2006 at 14:17

Thanks for the help.

I was actually being completely stupid...The disk that was "Missing" was missing because I had taken it out, (A while ago) but for some reason still thought it was there? The other HDD i hadn't noticed in Disk Management, and for some reaoson didn't have a letter assigned to it? So I did, and then everything was fine

Thanks.