Hi,
A couple of things to check:
- How does disk manager (diskmgmt.msc) report the space on the drive? Tried
importing it?
- Is the jumper set correctly?
- Was the drive originally set up with drive overlay software?
This latter one may be a problem, as it may require use of similar to regain
access to it without destroying data.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
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www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts
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>I recently bought a new PC. Vista came preinstalled. I pulled my data HDD
>out
> of my old windows 2000 box. It's formatted as either ntfs or fat32, I
> forget
> which.
>
> Anyway, my BIOS sees the drive, as does Vista. Sort of. The drive and its
> partition show up in Disk Management, but upon right clicking on the
> partition am only given the 'Help' option. Nothing else shows up. Vista
> also
> seems to have not assigned a volume name or letter to the drive.
>
> Disk Management doesn't see a file system on the disk, even though the
> 'Status' is listed as Healthy.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts or need more information?