Vista - recognize hard drive

I am having a hard time getting vista to recognize my slave hard drive. It
does show up in drive managment just no drive letter. I would partition and
format it if it wasnt for the slight problem that all my data is on there
except windows that i cant loose. I would also use partition magic if it
worked with vista. And if this is posted more than once sorry because it
sayed there was a problem.

ok apparently they did post, sorry. I dont see a button to delet the other ones

"jon" wrote:

> I am having a hard time getting vista to recognize my slave hard drive. It
> does show up in drive managment just no drive letter. I would partition and
> format it if it wasnt for the slight problem that all my data is on there
> except windows that i cant loose. I would also use partition magic if it
> worked with vista. And if this is posted more than once sorry because it
> sayed there was a problem.
>

try right-clicking on the partition in drive manager. does it have an option
to "change drive letter and paths"?

"jon" wrote:

> ok apparently they did post, sorry. I dont see a button to delet the other ones
>
> "jon" wrote:
>
> > I am having a hard time getting vista to recognize my slave hard drive. It
> > does show up in drive managment just no drive letter. I would partition and
> > format it if it wasnt for the slight problem that all my data is on there
> > except windows that i cant loose. I would also use partition magic if it
> > worked with vista. And if this is posted more than once sorry because it
> > sayed there was a problem.
> >

no, only delet volume and help, and i did find a way to get partition working
so if there is something i can do there

"Kip" wrote:

> try right-clicking on the partition in drive manager. does it have an option
> to "change drive letter and paths"?
>
> "jon" wrote:
>
> > ok apparently they did post, sorry. I dont see a button to delet the other ones
> >
> > "jon" wrote:
> >
> > > I am having a hard time getting vista to recognize my slave hard drive. It
> > > does show up in drive managment just no drive letter. I would partition and
> > > format it if it wasnt for the slight problem that all my data is on there
> > > except windows that i cant loose. I would also use partition magic if it
> > > worked with vista. And if this is posted more than once sorry because it
> > > sayed there was a problem.
> > >

I have the same problem as Jon. I can see the drive in the computer
management > disk management as well, but its listed as Healthy (Active,
Unknown Partition), with only the options Delete and Help enabled in the
context menu when right clicking on the partition.

I have a Dell Dimension 4600 (P4 3.0G) which supports IDE and SATA HDDs. My
primary OS, XP is installed on my primary master IDE hard drive. I was
unable to install Vista on my SATA drive until I disabled the IDE drive from
the BIOS. It kept giving me an error during the installation process, (not
sure what the code was, but the message was very generic). This error
occured both while trying to install from XP (as a clean install) and
directly booting up via DVD.

Now that VISTA is installed, I have re-enabled the IDE drive in the BIOS,
but Vista does not see or recognize it. XP can see both drives.

Vista recognizes USB external HDDs without any problems.

Jon, did you get this working?

"jon" wrote:

> no, only delet volume and help, and i did find a way to get partition working
> so if there is something i can do there
>
> "Kip" wrote:
>
> > try right-clicking on the partition in drive manager. does it have an option
> > to "change drive letter and paths"?
> >
> > "jon" wrote:
> >
> > > ok apparently they did post, sorry. I dont see a button to delet the other ones
> > >
> > > "jon" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am having a hard time getting vista to recognize my slave hard drive. It
> > > > does show up in drive managment just no drive letter. I would partition and
> > > > format it if it wasnt for the slight problem that all my data is on there
> > > > except windows that i cant loose. I would also use partition magic if it
> > > > worked with vista. And if this is posted more than once sorry because it
> > > > sayed there was a problem.
> > > >

interesting enough i found a solution to my own problem. Sort of. For this
you need a norton ghost cd and a place to put all the information you want to
keep. Put the cd in and boot from the cd. Once it is all loaded do the data
recovery tool (or someting like that). I think its the second one, but not
sure. You should be able to view your files in there. Once you get in there
copy the files that you want and past them where you want them. I used an
external drive for convience. Once you get all your data off you can go into
windows and partition, format and other things. You might want to make sure
you have all your information off before you do that because even the
recovery tool isnt that good. Atleast I havent had a tempatation to risk
loosing my data to try.

"antonio" wrote:

> I have the same problem as Jon. I can see the drive in the computer
> management > disk management as well, but its listed as Healthy (Active,
> Unknown Partition), with only the options Delete and Help enabled in the
> context menu when right clicking on the partition.
>
> I have a Dell Dimension 4600 (P4 3.0G) which supports IDE and SATA HDDs. My
> primary OS, XP is installed on my primary master IDE hard drive. I was
> unable to install Vista on my SATA drive until I disabled the IDE drive from
> the BIOS. It kept giving me an error during the installation process, (not
> sure what the code was, but the message was very generic). This error
> occured both while trying to install from XP (as a clean install) and
> directly booting up via DVD.
>
> Now that VISTA is installed, I have re-enabled the IDE drive in the BIOS,
> but Vista does not see or recognize it. XP can see both drives.
>
> Vista recognizes USB external HDDs without any problems.
>
> Jon, did you get this working?
>
> "jon" wrote:
>
> > no, only delet volume and help, and i did find a way to get partition working
> > so if there is something i can do there
> >
> > "Kip" wrote:
> >
> > > try right-clicking on the partition in drive manager. does it have an option
> > > to "change drive letter and paths"?
> > >
> > > "jon" wrote:
> > >
> > > > ok apparently they did post, sorry. I dont see a button to delet the other ones
> > > >
> > > > "jon" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I am having a hard time getting vista to recognize my slave hard drive. It
> > > > > does show up in drive managment just no drive letter. I would partition and
> > > > > format it if it wasnt for the slight problem that all my data is on there
> > > > > except windows that i cant loose. I would also use partition magic if it
> > > > > worked with vista. And if this is posted more than once sorry because it
> > > > > sayed there was a problem.
> > > > >

Thanks for the reply. Seems like a lot of work to get this drive working. I
have a new 250gb IDE hard drive which I just picked up, so maybe I'll try to
move my XP using Ghost to that drive and see if it works on there and still
lets Vista see the drive.

Any other suggestions are welcome.

"jon" wrote:

> interesting enough i found a solution to my own problem. Sort of. For this
> you need a norton ghost cd and a place to put all the information you want to
> keep. Put the cd in and boot from the cd. Once it is all loaded do the data
> recovery tool (or someting like that). I think its the second one, but not
> sure. You should be able to view your files in there. Once you get in there
> copy the files that you want and past them where you want them. I used an
> external drive for convience. Once you get all your data off you can go into
> windows and partition, format and other things. You might want to make sure
> you have all your information off before you do that because even the
> recovery tool isnt that good. Atleast I havent had a tempatation to risk
> loosing my data to try.
>
> "antonio" wrote:
>
> > I have the same problem as Jon. I can see the drive in the computer
> > management > disk management as well, but its listed as Healthy (Active,
> > Unknown Partition), with only the options Delete and Help enabled in the
> > context menu when right clicking on the partition.
> >
> > I have a Dell Dimension 4600 (P4 3.0G) which supports IDE and SATA HDDs. My
> > primary OS, XP is installed on my primary master IDE hard drive. I was
> > unable to install Vista on my SATA drive until I disabled the IDE drive from
> > the BIOS. It kept giving me an error during the installation process, (not
> > sure what the code was, but the message was very generic). This error
> > occured both while trying to install from XP (as a clean install) and
> > directly booting up via DVD.
> >
> > Now that VISTA is installed, I have re-enabled the IDE drive in the BIOS,
> > but Vista does not see or recognize it. XP can see both drives.
> >
> > Vista recognizes USB external HDDs without any problems.
> >
> > Jon, did you get this working?
> >
> > "jon" wrote:
> >
> > > no, only delet volume and help, and i did find a way to get partition working
> > > so if there is something i can do there
> > >
> > > "Kip" wrote:
> > >
> > > > try right-clicking on the partition in drive manager. does it have an option
> > > > to "change drive letter and paths"?
> > > >
> > > > "jon" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > ok apparently they did post, sorry. I dont see a button to delet the other ones
> > > > >
> > > > > "jon" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I am having a hard time getting vista to recognize my slave hard drive. It
> > > > > > does show up in drive managment just no drive letter. I would partition and
> > > > > > format it if it wasnt for the slight problem that all my data is on there
> > > > > > except windows that i cant loose. I would also use partition magic if it
> > > > > > worked with vista. And if this is posted more than once sorry because it
> > > > > > sayed there was a problem.
> > > > > >