During the past 2-3 months I have been waiting for the release of Service
Pack 1 in order that this ongoing problem may be solved. In other words, I
was told by my computer's manufacturer that Service Pack 1 would most
definitely solve this ongoing "missing hard drive" problem.
I was able to install Service Pack 1 today. The internal 1 TB Hitachi drive
still did not appear. Bringing up My Computer showed only the C drive (Disk
1) and the external 1 TB Lacie drive (Disk 0) .
Going back into Disk Management I found Disk 2 -- which I believe to be the
internal 1 TB drive -- to be unallocated. The following is a snapshot of the
present situation:
http://bp2.blogger.com/_-RQq-aijzY0/...Management.jpg
Because I know formal allocation of a drive requires formatting, I attempted
to allocate the drive and get it to be recognized by Vista without
reformatting the drive. (I assigned it its previous drive letter (X).)
However, this allocation attempt did not prove successful in that I'm
constantly told by the OS that I must format the drive before I can use it.
Does anyone have any suggestions on this present situation?
Again, this internal 1 Terabyte Drive has a lot of data on it that is
extremely valuable. I do not want to have to erase the drive if at all
possible.
Thanks!
"Hueyd" wrote:
Quote:
> I am having the same problem. I have a second SATA HDD (D
that I use for
> storage and backup. When the computer wakes up from Sleep mode it is gone.
> I go to system tools, and it is gone, device manager gone. The only way I
> get it back is to re-boot. The bios finds it just fine, then I am ok. But I
> can't put my computer to sleep or it will not be there when it wakes up.
>
>
> "husky86" wrote:
> Quote:
> > 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!