ravadox Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 I just recently purchased a 2TB WD20EARS Hard Drive and It is replacing another Hard Drive that Died. I Plugged it In, Everything seemed to be working fine. I Formatted it NTFS, Added Drive letter E to it (which was the same as the old drive its replacing). Copied all my data over to it and then noticed after every reboot of my computer the Drive will loose the E: Drive Letter. So to sum things up, After every reboot I have to go into Device Manager and Add E: to the hard drive so it shows up under my computer.. It Only does this in my Primary Computer. I plugged it into my HTPC and gave it a drive letter and everything worked fine, even after several reboots. Is it possible there is something in the registry causing the drive letter to be conflicting or something? Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravadox Posted March 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 quick update: I tried changing it to R then rebooting, still got cleared. Tried X, still got cleared. Just for the heck of it I tried Uninstalling the driver for it and rebooting. It Installed fine and there was still no drive letter, even after it reinstalled drivers. Tried adding it again as Y:, rebooted.. same thing again.. This is crazy, I'm pulling what little hair out that i have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 Can you relate any problems caused by this changing of the drive letter of the HDD?If it is only getting on your nerves and not causing any issues as far as indexing, I wouldn't worry about it unduly.If you want to post a screenshot of Disk Management for furthr analysis, please feel free.One Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravadox Posted March 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 yeah sure I can do that.. I would really like to find out why its happening to be honest. If it cannot be resolved I am considering an OS reload.. Thanks for your help.here is the SS of Disk Manager. It was too big to upload to this site so its on photobucket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravadox Posted March 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 nobody has any ideas for me to try? :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 In Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) under Computer, RIGHT click the drive you want to work on and click "Rename". Not done this operation on W7 but it works on earlier versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 In Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) under Computer, RIGHT click the drive you want to work on and click "Rename". Not done this operation on W7 but it works on earlier versions.It works with W 7 too.B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravadox Posted March 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 Tried your suggestion, no luck.. Here is another SS of my Disk Manager after the rename and a reboot. I renamed it to Data. The Drive Letter just freakin disappears... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted March 17, 2011 Report Share Posted March 17, 2011 A long shot....Have you tried renaming/assigning with a non Windows program?Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravadox Posted March 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 I have.. tried doing it with partition magic.. I broke down and did a complete OS reload over the weekend.. The problem still exists.. Maybe there is some setting in the bios that is causing this? being a 2TB hard drive and all? My motherboard is a P5N32-E SLI. I tried updating to the latest revision, still no change.. any other help guys please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 Just an off-the-wall thought ......Windows 7 supports a new partition-table scheme named 'GPT' that can handle larger drives. However you can not boot from GPT formatted drives unless your BIOS supports EFI.Does your P5N32-E SLI motherboard BIOS support EFI ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravadox Posted March 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 Just an off-the-wall thought ......Windows 7 supports a new partition-table scheme named 'GPT' that can handle larger drives. However you can not boot from GPT formatted drives unless your BIOS supports EFI.Does your P5N32-E SLI motherboard BIOS support EFI ?No I do not believe it does.. but I could try copying all my data to another hard drive and trying to format it as GPT.. Its just my data drive after all. Any special way to format it as GPT? Or do i just do it in disk management? I've never done it before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravadox Posted March 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I SOLVED IT GUYS!!there must have been something going on at the beginning or end of the drive. I ran the WD Zero Fill utility and wrote zeros to the first and last million bits of the drive and walla.. it started working correctly all of the sudden.. thanks for all your help :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyvira Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Thanks guys! I had a similar problem and solved it by running WD Zero Fill utility!-- Mark Gilberte-mail address deleted for safety Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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