Daskies Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Hello, all. I've just now installed a secondary Hard Drive onto my machine. I formatted it to be NSTC (I'm not sure that's the abbreviation, but it's the one windows xp uses [at least by default]). The first time I launched windows after that I got a message that said "New Found hardware [hd name here]" and after a few seconds the drive appeared under "my computer". I tryed to copy over a ton of files, and I realized that just wasn't going to work, so I hit quit, and after a few seconds it stopped trying to copy, and an error message that said something about my hard drive lagging (I can't be more specific as it came out of the corner of the screen, and disappeared fast). I then went to check, and I saw that the drive was no longer listed. I tried restarting, and still, nothing. If it matters my main hard drive (the one windows is installed on) is SATA, and this one is IDE-ATA (The cable goes from the CD/DVD burner to the secondary HD, and then to the computer). If someone could give me advice on how to get the hard drive listed again, on a management software, or anything else on this matter it'd be greatly appreciated.Edit: Almost forgot, I'm on Windows XP SP2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Have you been into disk management and initialised it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daskies Posted July 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 It's not listed in disk management. One second it was listed under "My Computer" as disk "E:/" and the next it's gone off the face of the computer. It's still installed, as the computer recognizes it, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Is it picked up in the BIOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daskies Posted July 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Yes it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 If it is showing in the BIOS but not in Windows, try another IDE cable, check all the connections are sound, try it on cable select, check the pins on the drive have not been bent when you connected it to the IDE cable or try disconnecting the DVD drive and try that conector on the hard drive.That is all I can think of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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