The hard drive is a Western Digital 320 GB that I've had plugged into this computer before (and worked). Then i got a virus and had to do a recovery of windows.

Ever since then I can't get windows to recognize/show it in my computer. I just "disabled" and "enabled" it in device manager to no effect. I have a C, D, and E drive which are: two partitions on the hard drive, and then the CD drive (respectively).



So i'm stuck, not sure where to proceed since it's obviously not the hard drive itself, I use it on my xbox all the time. What next?

Does it show in Disk Management ? ?
Right clik My Computer...select Manage...then Disk Management.
Find the drive...right clik it and select Properties.
Report back with your findings.

where all the other ones have click-able boxes on the lower half of disk management: "disk 0" is there and reads"Basic", "230 GB", and "online" and is not click-able. It's just a silhouette (as is the CD-ROM drive)

anyone?

Are you saying this drive shows up on other machines but not yours ? ?

Try this and post a screenie of what it says:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...s/PTEDIT32.zip

here's the screen shot... so clearly the computer see's the hard drive and recognizes it, but simply won't show it in my computer

Download BEST FREE Partition Manager Software for Windows supports all 32-bit & 64 bit Windows No-server OS. - might as well get the bootable disc also.

Rt click the drive, select Modify>Change partition ID in the drop down , select 0x07 , Yes and Apply. It will need a drive letter .

ha, no idea what happened or how it worked... but i appreciate the help!!!

-Billy

I assume that did the trick?

Glad it's working for you.