Assign it a drive letter. That does not format the drive.
"husky86" <husky86@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> 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!