Vista - My sata hard drive does not appear in Vista

I have 3 internal hard drives. One is the 'C' drive. Then I have a 'D' drive
for storage. Then I have 'L' drive which contains my MS games, ie Train Sim
And Flight Sim. And lets add an external HD 'K' which contains private
storage. All of these drives were visible when I was using XP Pro. I
installed Vista the other day off a DVD-/+RW which is a Sata drive and had no
problems.
Now my drive 'L' is no where to be found. I checked with Computer Management
and it still doesn't show. I updated the drivers for the ASUS motherboard,
still a no show. What can I do here? There is way too much special info on
that drive to fool around with reformating.
Please help me find an answer. Thank you all!

Mike

Mike I would try the logical choice method. Open up your system and double
check all of your wireing. Make sure your power plugs are all seated well
and all wires in and seated as well. If that is a go, try unpluging your
second internal drive and plugging in the drive you are having problems with.
Use the same wires and plug from the one you unplugged. Start up and see if
it shows up. If it does, come on back and we'll go from there!

Good Luck ~~ Gunny

"Mike" wrote:

"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok, How many physical drives did you have when you started? Where these
all SATA drives? Were any of these RAID drives? How were they formatted,
that is to say, how were they partitioned? On big partition for each drive?
What manufacturer drives are these and do you have the "disk tools" for the
drives? You can get them from the respective manufacturers web sites.

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BobF.

"Seidell23231" <Seidell23231@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2CB4B200-5D72-432E-AE42-F8A07FC994E5@xxxxxxI wouldn't do that yet. You do not want to add another variable into your
trouble shooting process unless it it necessary. If the drives were found
in your old OS, we'll find them in the new one.

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BobF.

Bob F,
I have 3 installed hard drives. The L is the only one that is sata, the
others are ata. They are all made by Maxtor. Here’s something I didn’t notice
before. I went into ‘Device Manager’ to get the name of the drives because I
forgot, and low and behold all 3 drives are listed! Why is it listed there
and not in ‘My Computer’?

Mike

"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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That's good work Mike. The Device Manager will help you configure
(somewhat) drives before they are initialized and mounted. Then they will
show up in "My Computer" as part of the OS. Now you can deal with them.
You can initialize them and assign letters. When you do, they should mount
(appear in My Computer). Can you handle it from here?

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BobF.

Bob F,

I might need some help there. It still doesn't show up in the Computer
Management window.

Mike

"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Any data on these drive that you care about. I understand you found them in
the Device Manager but don't see them in the Disk Management section of the
Computer Manager. Is that the case? Do you have the Maxtor tools for the
disks? You might be able to mount them that way. Seagate bought Maxtor so
you can get the tools from that site.

BTW, the reference to ATA drives has changed these days. The term is now
ambiguous. They are either (Serial) SATA or (Parallel) PATA, also known as
IDE. Since SATA came about the new PATA nomenclature showed up. Same IDE
drive, just new name. SCSI drives seemed to have lost favor.

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BobF.

Bob F,

You wrote:
"I understand you found them in
the Device Manager but don't see them in the Disk Management section of the
Computer Manager". This is correct. I 'm going over to the site now. I have
way too much data that I can't replace on that drive. I can never seem to
keep up with all these name changes! It seems strange that it shows in one
place but not the other. Wish me luck!

Mike

Mike

"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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ok...good luck.

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BobF.