Vista - SATA II HDD recognized in device manager & BIOS, but NOT win explo

My secondary HDD (music, pictures, etc.) spontaneously disappeared from
windows explorer yesterday. It is still shown in device manager and still
comes up in BIOS, but not Windows Explorer. I checked all of the cables and
rebooted the computer, which was extremely slow. The HDD is still gone.

It is a 500 GB Western Digital WD5000KS SATA II hard drive with about 350 GB
worth of data on it. Like I said, this happened spontaneously, i.e. not after
any hardware or software changes.

Thanks in advance for your help!

2.67 GHz Core 2 Duo
Asus P5N32-SLI Premium
Windows Vista Ultimate

"mjs!" <mjs@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Try this..

Right click on 'Computer'

Select 'Manage'

When the 'Computer Management' window opens, look to see if the drive has
been assigned a letter, and that the description is 'healthy'.

If there is no letter assigned. right click on the drive diagram in
question..

Select 'Change drive letter.. ' and then assign a letter..


If it hasn't

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Thanks Mike. Its nice not having to wade through a bunch of crap on
other sites and get a straight forward simple answer. I wish I'd found
your post two days ago.


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