HD not showing up after install

mentla · 7 May 2011 at 09:41

Hi guys, hope this is in the right section.

Just got a OCZ Agility Series 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive back from OCUK and installed it in a PC they kindly made for me last year. It's showing up in Device Managed but not in Explorer or in any way accessible. Mobo etc details below:

Mobo: gigabyte ga-ex58-ud3r
OS HD: Kingston SSDNow V Series 128GB SATA SSHD
Running Windows XP SP3

Does it maybe need reassigning in the BIOS (if that's the term, sorry am not PC literate)?

Thanks for any help

Paul11 · 7 May 2011 at 09:43

go to control panel
administrative tools
computer management
disk management

see if its in there and assign it a drive letter

Tonester007 · 7 May 2011 at 10:05

A faster way to open the Disk Management snap-in is to Run "diskmgmt.msc".
(Windows+R opens the Run dialog box.)

You will probably need to "Initialise" the disk before assigning a drive letter.

From MS Technet: "If the disk is a basic disk that is already partitioned and formatted, you can use it without initializing, but it will initially appear "offline" in Disk Management. If it's a brand-new disk that has never been partitioned or formatted, you need to initialize it first"

mentla · 7 May 2011 at 10:51

Perfect guys, thanks

mentla · 1 Dec 2011 at 16:24

Hi gents,

Not long after I put the disk in I started to have problems which I assumed were the new disk, so I took it out - turned out to be a Flash issue. Just got around to putting it back in and now it's not showing up anywhere other than in the BIOS. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

mentla · 4 Dec 2011 at 06:39

Forgot to mention, I'm running Windows xp.

And for some reason (was it a recent update) I can no longer right-click on anything in the Start menu, such as My Computer.