[romedi]

Hi!

I have a strange problem:
I have this hard drive that I have some important files on. When I start my computer, it is found by the bios.
But when I open "My Computer" in Windows XP it isn't there!
And even when I go to "Unit Handling" (Have the danish version, so I guess it is the english word for it), you can find it there, and you can even see, how much space there's left and other things.
Hope you understand my English.

Any solutions?

Thanks in forward.

- Romedi

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Your english is better than most.
Is the drive set as the slave and not the master, assuming you are using another hard drive as your main drive.

[warriorscot]

Your english is better than most.
Is the drive set as the slave and not the master, assuming you are using another hard drive as your main drive.

[romedi]

The hard drive is set as the slave, and the jumper is placed correctly as I have triple checked. Also with my master hard drive.

[warriorscot]

Have you tried it as the master.

[romedi]

Now I have. It didn't help.

[The_Sloth]

Put it as the slave again. Most likely what you need to do is assign it a drive letter, Windows probably knows it's there it just hasn't given you access yet. Here are the steps to check if Windows sees the drive and has given it a drive letter.

Click on Start then right-click on My Computer and select Manage. When the window opens click on Disk Management in the left hand column. You should see a list of all your connected drives on the right. Tell me if all of your hard drives are showing or not.

[romedi]

It isn't shown in "the upper list", but it is shown in the list beneath it, and it has a status of "online".
But it has a black line, and it says it's "not-allocated" - not sure about the last word, as I have to translate danish computer phrases into english.

[The_Sloth]

Ok, what you need to do is right-click on the drive and select Change Drive Letter and Paths. Another window will open. Click on the Add button in that window and Windows will bring up another window that will have a drop-down box listing available drive letters. Choose the one you want, click Ok then click Ok on the other window. You should be set after this. If you want to rearrange the drive letters on your CD-ROMs follow the same process, but click Edit instead of Add.

Please let me know if this fixes your problem, or if you're having trouble with the English to Danish translation.

[romedi]

I don't have those options.

When I right click on the drive I get to choose between: "New Partition", "Properties" and "Help".

[MOLEXRULZ]

It could be a registry error. Go to Start, run and type the letter for the hard drive, either E: or F: or G: etc.. depending on wether you have 2 optical drives or more hard drives. Tell me what happens. Also what version of windows are you using and what formatting is the drive because NTFS isn't 2000 compatible.

[romedi]

@ MOLEXRULZ

As written in my first post, the drive ins't nowhere to be found. I'm using XP sp2 and the hard drive is using the FAT32 system. I did what you suggested, and it's just saying, that the place I'm refering to, is not availble.

[The_Sloth]

Also what version of windows are you using and what formatting is the drive because NTFS isn't 2000 compatible.

NTFS is compatible with NT, 2000 and XP...the only OS's that won't read it are ME, 98, 95 and anything before that.

romedi,

Here's something to try. Go to http://www.masterbooter.com and download the trial version of their software. Make a boot floppy out of it and reboot to that floppy. Run the efdisk utility on the disk and dig through the menus (unfortunately I forget how it's all setup) and unhide the partition on the slave drive. MAKE SURE NOT TO DELETE ANY PARTITIONS. After you unhide the partition, restart back into Windows and if it doesn't automatically pick up the drive do what I told you earlier to add the drive letter to it.

[romedi]

Now I have a hard drive

Just wanna say thank you to The_Sloth. Your help is much, much appreciated, as I now can buy a new graphics card instead of a new hard drive as I feared

Thank you again

[The_Sloth]

No problem ! I'm glad it worked out well for you.

[MOLEXRULZ]

If you need any advice on a videocard
id glad to help