HDs seem to have been deleted from My Computer

dirtychinchilla · 23 Aug 2012 at 19:41

Evening all,

I'm having a rather horrendous problem. I was attempting to use Clonezilla to put a larger disc onto a smaller one and tried to change the HD size with Gparted. This kind of worked but I got a bit fed up and decided to reinstall Windows 7.

Now, I couldn't get the installation to work on the correct HD. When in the Windows 7 installation screen that allows you to select which to install to, I deleted some of the drives and I think it's caused some sort of problem. I ended up installing Windows on an SSD as I had planned, but now my other HDs no longer appear to exist to both the BIOS and to Windows...please help!!!

Thanks in advance,
dirtychinchilla

Raumarik · 23 Aug 2012 at 20:17

remove drives, reconnect one by one to see if any are picked up. If it's not showing in the BIOS then it wont' show in Win 7 or any other OS. You might want to check the HDD settings in the BIOS to ensure it's set to auto detect the drives.

asim18 · 23 Aug 2012 at 21:42

dirtychinchilla said:
I deleted some of the drives

dirtychinchilla said:
now my other HDs no longer appear

Erm...

You'll need to somehow try to recover the partitions you deleted.

Do the disks still show up in Disk Management?

dirtychinchilla · 24 Aug 2012 at 11:52

Halfmad said:
remove drives, reconnect one by one to see if any are picked up. If it's not showing in the BIOS then it wont' show in Win 7 or any other OS. You might want to check the HDD settings in the BIOS to ensure it's set to auto detect the drives.

Well they were working fine before I tried that Windows install so the actual drives are fine, as are all the cables. BIOS is set to auto detect...

asim18 said:
Erm...

You'll need to somehow try to recover the partitions you deleted.

Do the disks still show up in Disk Management?

No they don't Asim..