No, the drive does not show up in My Computer.
It does show up in the Device Manager, Disk Management.
It does show up in System Information -> Components -> Storage -> Disks.
It does not show up in System Information -> Components -> Storage -> Drives.
-Q
"Ian Betts" wrote:
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> "QContinueum" <QContinueum@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:13C28F03-F6D9-4660-ADC6-2BC7764BCC4E@microsoft.com...
> > 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
> >> news
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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?
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> My question would also be did you set the HD jumper to slave.
> >>
> >> Did you go into the Bios settings to make sure your drive is recognized?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ian
> >>
> >> With patience there is always a way.
> >>
> >> Please Reply to Newsgroup so all can read.
> >> Requests for assistance by email can not and will be deleted.
> >>
> >
> So when you click on My Computer your drive is listed, but when you double
> click the drive what happens?
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> --
> Ian
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> With patience there is always a way.
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> Please Reply to Newsgroup so all can read.
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will be deleted.
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