Disappearing Hard Disk

[djtek05]

Hi,

I have a 120 GB WD hard disk I have partitioned into two logical disks and I recently hooked up a 40 GB Seagate hard disk I've had for a long time into my system and Windows is not detecting it, however the BIOS does. I used to have Linux on it, so I went into FDISK, wiped the partition clean off the drive and re-partitioned it with a single 40 GB partition. I have the jumper on my 40 GB set to slave and my 120 set to master, but Windows still does not detect it even in the Manage portion of My Computer. I don't know if this would be a confounding factor or not, but I am running Master Daemon tools (for those of you not familiar with the program, it allows virtual CD-ROM drives to be established to allow for mounting of ISO's, in essence, it tricks the OS into thinking there are multiple CD-ROM drives when there really aren't). Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Brian

 

[wolluf]

'even in the Manage portion of My Computer' - you mean disk management (run diskmgmt.msc) doesn't see it? If so, that's very odd, if bios does see it. I'd have suspected it just didn't have a drive letter assigned - but it would still appear in disk management.

If this is the case (can't really believe it is, if fdisk can partition it), try running the drive manafuacturer's diagnostic on it.

If it can be seen in disk management, just assign it a drive letter there. Daemon tools could be confusing the issue - if you had already used it to set up virtual drives before you tried adding the hard drive (as it may have assigned the letter the drive will get to a virtual device) - but this all supposes windows detects the drive at all. If it does you can either change the drive's letter in disk management or change the letter demon tools is assigning to virtual drive to unmask the hard drive.

 

[G0AOZ]

I'm just wondering if the "missing" partition on that drive has somehow got hidden. I've had that happen to me before now, and have used the EFDISK utility in MRBOOTER to unhide it. Can't immediately think of the correct DOS or Windows utility that would unhide a partition...?

ROGER - G0AOZ.