Storage drive went missing from 'my computer'

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Hi all, after a much needed install of XP a few days ago my pc seemed fine.
Then yesterday it starts up and does a disc check thingy, which I let it do.
Then I notice that my Samsung Spinpoint 500GB has disappeared from My computer.
I am on SP2.
I went to disc manager and its not there.
It is however there in BIOS and hardware device manager.
I got the drive to appear in my computer by disabling it in device manager then enabling, all the files appeared fine on quick inspection.
Next boot into windows its vanished again:(

Can I get my drive back without having to format/erase all the data? (it's pretty much full)

And I don't know if its a coincidence but on the boot-up when disc check ran that was on the prompted re-start that daemon tools does for installation. I.e. the last thing I did was to install daemon tools which incidentally has not installed properly

Appreciate any help I've looked around google but not really sure whats happened

Just went into safemode and drive is visible in my computer, I re-assigned it a new drive letter but still no joy in normal mode...
Think it would help to format with XP again? No biggie as just done it...
 
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This happened with my CD rom drive once

and i think i disabled in bios, then enabled and it worked fine and could see it in my computer.

Give it a go, might work.

Other than that it might be a registry problem
 
Cables I think are fine having 'jiggled' them & it IS in the BIOS
I'll give a BIOS disable/enable a go
As for daemon there is nothing to uninstall in add/remove programs...however it is suspicious

Just went into BIOS (ASUS P5NE-SLI) and couldn't see a disable option for the hardrive?
It's not related in anyway to boot device priority or what number is allocated to the drive? It's SATA 2 on main screen then its in position three on the hard disk screen but thought that didn't really matter...
 
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If it were me, I'd go into safe mode, copy all the files off your drive then delete the partition, reboot windows and see if it now appears in disk manager, if it does then parting and format it and go from there. It is also worthwhile moving it to a different sata port if possible.
 
Might just buy another five hundred gigger then as cheap now and to replace my resonating maxtor 250gb lol, tranfer the stuff I want from either drives then format the samsung.
Was thinking of getting an F1 Samsung? Nothing against the brand despite what has happened...tis only storage afterall but any speed benefit is nice:)
danke all
 
Hi all, luckily the problem has spontaneously resolved itself, in that the drive is now there and working on bootup in my computer, with the new drive letter I assigned it days ago...

Hope it stays that way and thanks for all the help
 
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