On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:48:01 -0700, husky86
<husky86@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>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:
The drive space is allocated as a primary partition. The problem is
the file system isn't being recognized.
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>http://bp2.blogger.com/_-RQq-aijzY0/...Management.jpg
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>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. Did you try running chkdsk in read-only mode to see what problems it
sees?
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>Does anyone have any suggestions on this present situation?
I would try running TestDisk to see what problems, if any, it sees.
Your best bet is using a file recovery program.
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>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!
>
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>"Hueyd" wrote:
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>> 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:
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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!