• Hard Drive missing from 'My Computer'
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Heyo. So I recently built another PC, salvaged a drive from my old one after wiping it. When the computer boots, a screen pops up showing that I have two drives in the thing, both green, before it all continues. However, what I've noticed is that the drive itself isn't accessible to my computer. I've tried finding it under device and drive managers to no avail. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Probably, but that's why I'm asking the experts.
have you tried using the "disk management"? i experienced something similar, months ago, and it was because of a drive not being assigned a drive letter, somehow. edit: i did not check the device manager to see if the drive was missing there, so you might be encountering a wildly different problem.
[QUOTE=cynaraos;48785926]have you tried using the "disk management"? i experienced something similar, months ago, and it was because of a drive not being assigned a drive letter, somehow. edit: i did not check the device manager to see if the drive was missing there, so you might be encountering a wildly different problem.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://puu.sh/ksddY/86a7117f6f.png[/IMG]
could it be bad cables? I've many harddrive, monitor, and all sorts of issues from bad cables
[QUOTE=EpikEnvy2.0;48785937][IMG]http://puu.sh/ksddY/86a7117f6f.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] i cannot help you any further, then.
[QUOTE=J!NX;48785938]could it be bad cables? I've many harddrive, monitor, and all sorts of issues from bad cables[/QUOTE] I don't [I]think[/I] so. I say that because it still says the hard drive is there on booting. I have some extra SATA cords lying around so I can try it come daylight.
Do you have skype OP? I have some suggestions for test, but they're fairly heavy. My skype is 'corewarp'.
when ever i have drive problem i use [url]http://gparted.org/[/url] its a nice little tool that can offer information about the drive
[QUOTE=taz0;48786041]when ever i have drive problem i use [url]http://gparted.org/[/url] its a nice little tool that can offer information about the drive[/QUOTE] This works on windos? I was gonna have him get sysreccd and use gparted from there.
[QUOTE=Corewarp3;48786054]This works on windos? I was gonna have him get sysreccd and use gparted from there.[/QUOTE] its a live disk so it starts from a reboot and scans the pc to read the drives and provide info to help do format, scans and set drive letters or format settings EDIT if where talking about the top drive in the picture it could be a protected partition and only accessible from the bios to reinstall the OS, if you wanted to reclaim the space you would ave to use G-parted to delete it then reformat it to ntfs
Poke around in your BIOS, see if there's some sort of switch you have to flip before it exposes the drive to the operating system
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