HELP!!! cant see my hard disk

obsidianx2 · December 4th, 2005

i recently added an old 40gig ide hard disk back into my destop pc
it is detected by BIOs and in device manager of windows

however i cant see it in "my computer" as a drive... previously did the same thing b4 and all was fine...

i installed alcohol 120 between the last time i plugged in the 40g HD

pls help, got important info inside the drive

**Johnny** · December 4th, 2005

do you have it set for slave or master ??

**Shamus MacNoob** · December 4th, 2005

When you look at it in the device manager ... try this instead , right click on my computer icon, go to manage, disk manager , see if you see your hard drive there and if so what does it say for example ... basic ? dynamic?

**kcnychief** · December 4th, 2005

Kermit is in the right direction, it sounds like your drive needs to be initialized and then formatted. Until this action happens, Windows doesn't know how to interpret it because there is no File System. Follow his directions above and right-click on the drive to get the ball rolling....

**Admiral Michael** · December 4th, 2005

Originally Posted by obsidianx2

pls help, got important info inside the drive

Umm, I dont know about formatting.

egghead · December 4th, 2005

do not format this drive if you are trying to retrieve important info that is on it.

**Shamus MacNoob** · December 4th, 2005

You can still get a look at it without formatting the way I showed, I wanted to see if the OS see's his hard drive .

**Admiral Michael** · December 4th, 2005

Well kcnychief mentioned formatting. I was just making sure you guys saw that sentence before providing directions to format.

**Shamus MacNoob** · December 4th, 2005

Yes and formatting is not what we want here , just want to see his hard drive

obsidianx2 · December 5th, 2005

hmmmm device manager sees the hard disk...
and i have it set as slave

bush dogg · December 5th, 2005

By chance did you forget to connect the power cable?

obsidianx2 · December 5th, 2005

of COURSE...

if not i wun be able to see it in device manager rite?
:P

**kcnychief** · December 5th, 2005

Sorry for not reading the OP carefully enough, feel free to slap me silly

EDIT: Back to Kermit's original suggestion, since you can see it within Device Manager, does it show up in Disk Management?

**Shamus MacNoob** · December 5th, 2005

Until we know this there really is no going anywhere, if it is in the Disk Managment , we need to know how it is seen

**kcnychief** · December 5th, 2005

Originally Posted by Kermit_The_Frog

Until we know this there really is no going anywhere, if it is in the Disk Managment , we need to know how it is seen

Seconded.

Can you post a screenshot?

**Johnny** · December 5th, 2005

Can you see it in safe mode ?? also, is it the same format as the first one ? if the first one is fat32 and the second one is ntfs, you won't be able to see .. I am thinking that once you format it you will be able to see it ... If you can see it in safe mode try it in there .

**Admiral Michael** · December 5th, 2005

You can run two different file systems. I've done it before. Besides, he can't format. He needs to grab data off it.

Myabe he needs to assign a drive letter to it. I'll wait for a screenshot first tho.

**Shamus MacNoob** · December 5th, 2005

Yes windows xp will see both fat and ntfs , we just need to hear from the person with the problem ...seems he is not around at the moment.

obsidianx2 · December 6th, 2005

no its not in disk management but
at the same time
a pop up appeared wif "disk0" and a check box next to it
tink it wants me to format my old HD

**Admiral Michael** · December 6th, 2005

OK, now I'm lost.

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obsidianx2 OSNN Junior Addict Joined: December 2005 Posts: 4 Reputation: 0 Power: 0	HELP!!! cant see my hard disk i recently added an old 40gig ide hard disk back into my destop pc it is detected by BIOs and in device manager of windows however i cant see it in "my computer" as a drive... previously did the same thing b4 and all was fine... i installed alcohol 120 between the last time i plugged in the 40g HD pls help, got important info inside the drive

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Johnny Paul Reed Smith Joined: January 2004 Location: Happy Valley Posts: 4,869 Reputation: 2369 Power: 173	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk do you have it set for slave or master ?? Paul Reed Smith.

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Shamus MacNoob OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: January 2002 Location: Brossard,Quebec Posts: 4,199 Blog Entries: 1 Reputation: 1481 Power: 182	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk When you look at it in the device manager ... try this instead , right click on my computer icon, go to manage, disk manager , see if you see your hard drive there and if so what does it say for example ... basic ? dynamic? Attached Thumbnails ASUS PN5-E SLI,Intel E8400,2 x 8800GTX 768mb SLI,ASUS VW266H 26 inch LCD, 8 GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer, Silverstone Strider 850watt PSU.Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

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kcnychief █▄█ ▀█▄ █ Joined: April 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 16,949 Reputation: 4941 Power: 305	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk Kermit is in the right direction, it sounds like your drive needs to be initialized and then formatted. Until this action happens, Windows doesn't know how to interpret it because there is no File System. Follow his directions above and right-click on the drive to get the ball rolling....

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Admiral Michael Michaelsoft Systems CEO Joined: February 2003 Location: Hamilton, Ontario Canada Earth Posts: 3,125 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 2216 Power: 166	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk Originally Posted by obsidianx2 pls help, got important info inside the drive Umm, I dont know about formatting. Apple MacBook Pro Intel Quad-Core i7 2GHz \| Corsair 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Memory \| WD 750GB 7200RPM Black Edition SATA Hard Drive \| Intel HD Graphics 3000/AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256MB GDDR5 \| 15.4" LED backlit glossy screen @ 1440x900 \| Dual Band Airport Wireless/Bluetooth \| Gigabit Ethernet \| Thunderbolt I/O \| Built-in Webcam \| Backlit Keyboard \| Firewire 800 \| DVDRW \| OS X Lion 10.7.1 My Site \| My DVD Collection \| Your Chevrolet Guy

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Shamus MacNoob OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: January 2002 Location: Brossard,Quebec Posts: 4,199 Blog Entries: 1 Reputation: 1481 Power: 182	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk You can still get a look at it without formatting the way I showed, I wanted to see if the OS see's his hard drive . ASUS PN5-E SLI,Intel E8400,2 x 8800GTX 768mb SLI,ASUS VW266H 26 inch LCD, 8 GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer, Silverstone Strider 850watt PSU.Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

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Admiral Michael Michaelsoft Systems CEO Joined: February 2003 Location: Hamilton, Ontario Canada Earth Posts: 3,125 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 2216 Power: 166	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk Well kcnychief mentioned formatting. I was just making sure you guys saw that sentence before providing directions to format. Apple MacBook Pro Intel Quad-Core i7 2GHz \| Corsair 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Memory \| WD 750GB 7200RPM Black Edition SATA Hard Drive \| Intel HD Graphics 3000/AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256MB GDDR5 \| 15.4" LED backlit glossy screen @ 1440x900 \| Dual Band Airport Wireless/Bluetooth \| Gigabit Ethernet \| Thunderbolt I/O \| Built-in Webcam \| Backlit Keyboard \| Firewire 800 \| DVDRW \| OS X Lion 10.7.1 My Site \| My DVD Collection \| Your Chevrolet Guy

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Shamus MacNoob OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: January 2002 Location: Brossard,Quebec Posts: 4,199 Blog Entries: 1 Reputation: 1481 Power: 182	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk Yes and formatting is not what we want here , just want to see his hard drive ASUS PN5-E SLI,Intel E8400,2 x 8800GTX 768mb SLI,ASUS VW266H 26 inch LCD, 8 GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer, Silverstone Strider 850watt PSU.Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

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obsidianx2 OSNN Junior Addict Joined: December 2005 Posts: 4 Reputation: 0 Power: 0	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk hmmmm device manager sees the hard disk... and i have it set as slave

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bush dogg OSNN Senior Addict Joined: January 2004 Location: Kansas Posts: 431 Reputation: 590 Power: 112	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk By chance did you forget to connect the power cable?

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obsidianx2 OSNN Junior Addict Joined: December 2005 Posts: 4 Reputation: 0 Power: 0	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk of COURSE... if not i wun be able to see it in device manager rite? :P

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kcnychief █▄█ ▀█▄ █ Joined: April 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 16,949 Reputation: 4941 Power: 305	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk Sorry for not reading the OP carefully enough, feel free to slap me silly EDIT: Back to Kermit's original suggestion, since you can see it within Device Manager, does it show up in Disk Management?

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Shamus MacNoob OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: January 2002 Location: Brossard,Quebec Posts: 4,199 Blog Entries: 1 Reputation: 1481 Power: 182	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk Until we know this there really is no going anywhere, if it is in the Disk Managment , we need to know how it is seen ASUS PN5-E SLI,Intel E8400,2 x 8800GTX 768mb SLI,ASUS VW266H 26 inch LCD, 8 GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer, Silverstone Strider 850watt PSU.Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

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kcnychief █▄█ ▀█▄ █ Joined: April 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 16,949 Reputation: 4941 Power: 305	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk Originally Posted by Kermit_The_Frog Until we know this there really is no going anywhere, if it is in the Disk Managment , we need to know how it is seen Seconded. Can you post a screenshot?

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Johnny Paul Reed Smith Joined: January 2004 Location: Happy Valley Posts: 4,869 Reputation: 2369 Power: 173	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk Can you see it in safe mode ?? also, is it the same format as the first one ? if the first one is fat32 and the second one is ntfs, you won't be able to see .. I am thinking that once you format it you will be able to see it ... If you can see it in safe mode try it in there . Paul Reed Smith.

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Admiral Michael Michaelsoft Systems CEO Joined: February 2003 Location: Hamilton, Ontario Canada Earth Posts: 3,125 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 2216 Power: 166	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk You can run two different file systems. I've done it before. Besides, he can't format. He needs to grab data off it. Myabe he needs to assign a drive letter to it. I'll wait for a screenshot first tho. Apple MacBook Pro Intel Quad-Core i7 2GHz \| Corsair 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Memory \| WD 750GB 7200RPM Black Edition SATA Hard Drive \| Intel HD Graphics 3000/AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256MB GDDR5 \| 15.4" LED backlit glossy screen @ 1440x900 \| Dual Band Airport Wireless/Bluetooth \| Gigabit Ethernet \| Thunderbolt I/O \| Built-in Webcam \| Backlit Keyboard \| Firewire 800 \| DVDRW \| OS X Lion 10.7.1 My Site \| My DVD Collection \| Your Chevrolet Guy

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Shamus MacNoob OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: January 2002 Location: Brossard,Quebec Posts: 4,199 Blog Entries: 1 Reputation: 1481 Power: 182	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk Yes windows xp will see both fat and ntfs , we just need to hear from the person with the problem ...seems he is not around at the moment. ASUS PN5-E SLI,Intel E8400,2 x 8800GTX 768mb SLI,ASUS VW266H 26 inch LCD, 8 GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer, Silverstone Strider 850watt PSU.Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

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obsidianx2 OSNN Junior Addict Joined: December 2005 Posts: 4 Reputation: 0 Power: 0	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk no its not in disk management but at the same time a pop up appeared wif "disk0" and a check box next to it tink it wants me to format my old HD

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Admiral Michael Michaelsoft Systems CEO Joined: February 2003 Location: Hamilton, Ontario Canada Earth Posts: 3,125 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 2216 Power: 166	Re: HELP!!! cant see my hard disk OK, now I'm lost. Apple MacBook Pro Intel Quad-Core i7 2GHz \| Corsair 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Memory \| WD 750GB 7200RPM Black Edition SATA Hard Drive \| Intel HD Graphics 3000/AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256MB GDDR5 \| 15.4" LED backlit glossy screen @ 1440x900 \| Dual Band Airport Wireless/Bluetooth \| Gigabit Ethernet \| Thunderbolt I/O \| Built-in Webcam \| Backlit Keyboard \| Firewire 800 \| DVDRW \| OS X Lion 10.7.1 My Site \| My DVD Collection \| Your Chevrolet Guy