Solve : Hard Drive not recognised?

1.	Solve : Hard Drive not recognised?
Answer» Hi Folks, new to all this and only have moderate knowledge of computers, so be gentle. Here goes. I have a system with two hard drives, all was working fine but slowing down etc so chose to do format on C drive . D drive HOLDS music only. Format on XP went ok , everything back and working fine. Problem : In My Computer the D drive no longer shows up. I have been on device manager and it shows there with no errors, working fine, best driver in use etc. I have tried going into disk management via Control panel. Drive shows as OK but no drive letter there. I tried right click to change or assign drive letter but option not available. I cannot access a lot of good music. Done all the USUAL re leads, connections. I'm sure its a software problem. Help TimHere Ya Go... patio. 8-)Thanks for the link to taking ownership of a file but can you briefly explain how/what this will doIt will allow access to the files on the hard drive you can't see right now ... Quote In My Computer the D drive no longer shows up. Many thanks, i'll give it a go but off to work now. Will post thanks update to let you know if it works.size of your D drive pls? and it's SATA or PATA?Hi, Its a Maxtor Diamondmax 40GB I'm not sure what SATA etc is, does this help. I tried following the link as given above but there are no files or folders being shown to own if that makes any sense Quote Done all the usual re leads, connections. I'm sure its a software problem. Who made that up? If the drive is not seen in the BIOS it is a hardware problem. This happens before Windows or any software loads,Can someone help and explain what you meen by being recognised by BIOS. As for hardware problem it all worked fine before i formatted other driveThe Bios is your setup screen. You need to make sure that the hard drive is recognized correctly in there. How to get to the BIOS depends on the motherboard or computer make. The key to get there is usually shown ONSCREEN when booting BEFORE the Windows logo. Don't change anything for now, just TAKE a look. Did you change any jumpers, etc. during all of this. You said you checked the leads/connections. Did you have a reason to do this?No i had no reason to change jumpers. They were in master slave config as they are nowI have checked BIOS and it shows there as slave, it auto detects during set up but still no SHOW in My computerRamRaider Another poster called Conquer Online jumped into this thread and then got a reply from pcFool which led this thread off on a tangent... Right click My Computer and select Manage...then choose Disk Management. Does it show up here ? ? If so right click it and select Properties and see what it says... patio. 8-)Sorry for delay, work and all that. Done as above and following: Disc 0 55.90 gb NTFS Healthy (system) Disc 1 38.28 gb NTFS Healthy active * Problem disc *** When right click on disc 1 (right hand pane) properties is greyed out when i right click left pane it takes me to a properties box with the same options i can get if i right click on drive in device manager (where it shows up ) Any help to you ?

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Hi Folks, new to all this and only have moderate knowledge of computers, so be gentle. Here goes.
I have a system with two hard drives, all was working fine but slowing down etc so chose to do format on C drive . D drive HOLDS music only. Format on XP went ok , everything back and working fine.
Problem : In My Computer the D drive no longer shows up. I have been on device manager and it shows there with no errors, working fine, best driver in use etc.
I have tried going into disk management via Control panel. Drive shows as OK but no drive letter there.
I tried right click to change or assign drive letter but option not available.

I cannot access a lot of good music.

Done all the USUAL re leads, connections. I'm sure its a software problem.
Help
TimHere Ya Go...

patio. 8-)Thanks for the link to taking ownership of a file but can you briefly explain how/what this will doIt will allow access to the files on the hard drive you can't see right now ... Quote

In My Computer the D drive no longer shows up.

Many thanks, i'll give it a go but off to work now. Will post thanks update to let you know if it works.size of your D drive pls? and it's SATA or PATA?Hi, Its a Maxtor Diamondmax 40GB I'm not sure what SATA etc is, does this help. I tried following the link as given above but there are no files or folders being shown to own if that makes any sense Quote

Done all the usual re leads, connections. I'm sure its a software problem.

Who made that up? If the drive is not seen in the BIOS it is a hardware problem. This happens before Windows or any software loads,Can someone help and explain what you meen by being recognised by BIOS. As for hardware problem it all worked fine before i formatted other driveThe Bios is your setup screen. You need to make sure that the hard drive is recognized correctly in there. How to get to the BIOS depends on the motherboard or computer make. The key to get there is usually shown ONSCREEN when booting BEFORE the Windows logo. Don't change anything for now, just TAKE a look.

Did you change any jumpers, etc. during all of this. You said you checked the leads/connections. Did you have a reason to do this?No i had no reason to change jumpers. They were in master slave config as they are nowI have checked BIOS and it shows there as slave, it auto detects during set up but still no SHOW in My computerRamRaider

Another poster called Conquer Online jumped into this thread and then got a reply from pcFool which led this thread off on a tangent...

Right click My Computer and select Manage...then choose Disk Management.
Does it show up here ? ?
If so right click it and select Properties and see what it says...

patio. 8-)Sorry for delay, work and all that.
Done as above and following:
Disc 0 55.90 gb NTFS Healthy (system)
Disc 1 38.28 gb NTFS Healthy active *** Problem disc *****

When right click on disc 1 (right hand pane) properties is greyed out
when i right click left pane it takes me to a properties box with the same options i can get if i right click on drive in device manager (where it shows up )
Any help to you ?

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