Hard drive not detected

mattyj1085

mattyj1085

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I have a hard drive that had some error on the bootup files and wouldn't boot into windows. I'm trying to plug the drive into another pc to recover the files from it but its not displaying in my computer or disk management.

I can however see the drive in the bios and in device manager in windows.

Anyone got any idea's why I cannot see the drive in my comp or disk management???? I could do with getting some data back of this drive if at all possible.

Drive is a WD 20GB IDE

Thanks
 
Normally if the drive is visible in Device Manager then it's in Disk Management so the fact that it isn't is unusual. If it's IDE then things should be dead simple - attach the drive and go, no need for drivers etc.

Is the drive configured to be master/slave as appropriate for the cable it's on?

Is the controller enabled and showing in Device Manager (should be if the drive is visible)
 
The drive is connected to the only IDE slot on my motherboard and its set to slave at the minute on the jumpers. I know its weird that its shown in device manager and the bios but theres nothing in disk management.

Could the disk be totally unrecoverable or could I get a program to rebuild the file allocation table?
 
I assume that there's another device on the cable if the drive is set to slave? Is the other device set to master or cable select?
 
there isnt another drive on the cable, I set it to slave as it was on cable select original but the pc wouldn't boot from the sata drive. Does it need to be set to master then?
 
It needs to be set to master. The PC will probably try and boot from the IDE drive ahead of the SATA one (as it was doing when the IDE drive was set to CS), make sure you check and alter (if necessary) the BIOS boot priority list.
 
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