Vista - I deleted my hard drive in disk management now i cant allocate it

ok recently i formated my 1TB hard drive and then went to a friends place where i could then get some program files back. It then said i had to format it again which took 4hrs to do 6% so we thought this is taking way too long.

So we canceled it, right clicked on the drive and went delete volume.

now the drive comes ONLY in devies. In computer management it only shows up as Disk 1 with a grey box next to it with no options associated with it it is literaly just an outline. includes no info about the drive.

we have tried uninstalling the drive - non successful
well to be honest thats the only real option it gives us to do now

What i wan to do is get the drive back to becing recognised in disk management so that i can allocate it again and put my files back on it

please help.

Did you try rebooting and importing foreign drive in disk management. What happens when you right click on the partition on that drive? What shows up on the list?

I have tried rebooting multiple times, i have also completly erased my computer still no luck.

i cannot find an option to input foreign drive in disk management?

when i right click on the part where it says Disk 1 Basic it gives the option of properties and help, when i right click on the empty white box beside it it has no options

Hi Peter,

In Disk Management, when you right click on the unallocated drive, you will need to click on New Simple Volume. Step Two in this tutorial will help show you how to do this.

Disk Management - Shrink Partition

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Turn off/unplug the computer. Unplug the drive from the computer. Restart Windows verify its gone. Turn off Windows and unplug. Plug in and see if the drive works. Was the drive on a RAID controller. If yes, go into the RAID controller and see if its marked failed/bad. I have seen this cause a drive not to go back into Windows.

Tried that as well. How do i know if it is on a RAID controller

Thats the thing i do not have the option to create a new simple volume. it doesnt even say its unallocated. there is literaly nothing there except for disk 1 basic online. there is no other box to click on

Peter,

You may need to boot from your Vista Installaion DVD to format the drive, then cancel the installation process (Click on X in top right corner) if you did not want to install Vista. See steps 10 to 12 here for the drive options.

Clean Install with a Full Version of Vista

Hope this helps,
Shawn

ok what im doing now is;

I unplugged all of the sata connections except for the one which had the problem.
I then booted from the windows installation disk
The drive was there but it was unable to have windows installed on it because it was the wrong type of drive started with G cant remember the rest sorry
I then went into the command prompt and went format C:
then came up with the warning all data will be lost
So now the drive is formatting and i can only assume that it is formatting the right one.
If this dosn't work then im completly out of ideas.

Any more feedback would be much appreciated

Peter,

I'm glad to hear that it is formatting for you now. Hopefully it will be recognized by Vista after it is done and you plug back in the other drives.

Shawn