Hello "husky86":
Sata drive cable connections have been known to come loose. You might
check and make sure both ends of the data cable are firmly attached. Also
check to see if the power cable is tightly connected. If that doesn't help I
would need to know if your board bios can see still see the drive. If it
does, then I would check in Disk Management to see if it shows there.
Sometimes you can see the drive in disk management but not just by clicking
"Computer". If it shows up in Disk Management but is not listed as active
and healthy you might check and see if you can see the drive in the Media
Center Window under recorder. I couldn't get Vista to see a drive I had
moved to my pc from another but it was visible in Media Center and I
temporarilly selected it to be the "Recording Drive". After a file was
established on that drive for recorded tv it began showing up in Computer and
the entire drive was then accessible. I then just went back into Media
Center and changed the recording drive back to the previous one and have had
no problems since. These suggestions may not be the solution but you could
give them a try......won't hurt anything at least! Good luck!
xiowan........in tucson
"husky86" wrote:
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> I'm running a desktop system with Windows Vista Ultimate. I have encountered
> a problem that I know is being experienced by other Vista users; I'm hoping
> there is a workaround.
>
> I have an internal 1 TB Hitachi hard drive (not the C drive). This desktop
> system is only about six months old, and ever since I first acquired it I
> found that this internal hard drive would go missing after putting Vista into
> Sleep or Hibernation mode. Restarting the system would always enable Vista
> to recognize the internal 1 TB hard drive again.
>
> However, about two weeks ago this temporary fix wasn't working anymore --
> restarting Vista didn't enable the 1 TB internal drive to be recognized.
> It's been missing ever since.
>
> And yet this drive is working properly according to Device Manager
> (Including having the latest driver).
>
> Doing a Google search has produced a few other threads on the web where
> Vista users are also experiencing missing hard drives. Supposedly this
> situation is to be directly addressed by Microsoft with the release of
> Service Pack 1. Unfortunately, I need access to my internal hard drive now,
> not weeks from now when Service Pack 1 is finally released.
>
> Does anyone know of a workaround? Any solution whatsoever... outside of
> reinstalling Vista?
>
> Thanks!