Hi everyone. (first post)
I have a second SATA hard drive which has vanished from Explorer/My Computer.
Incidentally so has my other IDE hard drive.
They show up in the BIOS & Disk Management.
Both these hard drives were working and had data written to them.
This second SATA drive is exactly the same model as my Primary C drive.
I have done the usual proceedure of checking plugs, replugging, rebooting etc.
In the Disk Management window the Second drive shows up as simple|basic|raw whereas the Primary drive is simple|basic|NTFS.
I'm sure i formatted this as NTFS months ago.
I did 'initialise' the drive after right-clicking indicated that the drive was uninitialised.
The IDE drive is currently showing as 'unallocated'.
Right clicking gives mo one option - 'New Simple Volume'
I don't know what to do as i don't want to lose the data on these drives.
Anyone have any ideas.
thanks.
Vista HomePremium 32bit
WD 300Gb drives x 2 - SATA
Seagate 60Gb drive - IDE
Unfortunately, it sounds like you've already hosed one of the drives, for if disk management is reporting a drive as "raw" that means it is saying that their is no partition information on it. Your best bet is to *immediately* disconnect both drives, then go on the lookout for software that can recover deleted *partitions* - there are plenty that can undelete files, but you need one for the partition.
I'd also try the drives in another machine to see if they are really hosed first or not - it may be that Windows has lost its mind....
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I would agree w johngalt on all his statements. "Initialize" is a real deal and means just that. Even in the reason why I'm on the forums this AM (below) had a small and similar issue with using my V32 DVD just last weekend on a new drive. When I didn't press the "New" option when I selected the drive, the install crapped as it really hadn't been initialized. Best wishes with johngalt's other suggestion of trying another machine.
I'm out here as the greed of Intuit/Proseries caused me yet again to consider another provider of tax software for the year 2008. My choice was ATX but did know going in that their product might not run on my primary V64 machine. Sure enough-that was the case. The supposedly simple solution was to buy another drive, drop it into the machine, bring up my V32 DVD and my OSL2000 boot manager and work it.
Well heck....my V64 environment sees the V32 HD just fine in Explorer but not the other way around. Why Thati s is what I'm trying to figure out.
