I've tried running the drive in both cable select and master/slave
configurations. No luck.
I did mention that the BIOS does see my drive (as does vista, I just can't
access it). At this point, I still do.
-Q
"Ian Betts" wrote:
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> "QContinueum" <QContinueum@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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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?
> >
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> My question would also be did you set the HD jumper to slave.
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> Did you go into the Bios settings to make sure your drive is recognized?
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> Ian
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