Enabling Hard Drive After Disabling It

[HamalSharatan]

I did a search on this, and I found no relevant results, so I hope you can help me.

On Windows Vista, I went to Device Manager, went to the properties of my slave drive (EIDE) and clicked on disable. Naturally, the drive disappeared from "My Computer". How do I enable back the HDD since it doesn't appear on Device Manager? Thanks.

 

[Nelviticus]

Have a look in Disk Management - right-click My Computer and select 'Manage' then choose the 'Disk Management' item.

That's how you do it on XP anyway, I think Vista is similar.

Nelviticus

 

[kjv1611]

Yes, Disk management works exactly the same in Vista as XP, best I can tell. There may be some more advanced options, but I've yet to notice any difference to date.

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[kjv1611]

And if you can't seem to fix your issue via Computer Management, there's an application that might take care of it for you. It's the "tweakui" for Vista, sort of, but it's by a 3rd party. It's TweakVI.

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[tlcscousin]

Have you looked in device manager and see if its listed under Hard Drives and if so enable it there?

 

[HamalSharatan]

Thanks all. Unfortunately, nothing worked. I had to take the drive out and connect it using a USB to SATA/EIDE cable.

 

[kjv1611]

Sounds like possibly the drive controller may have been disabled rather than the drive itself. So I'm guessing you did so under device manager, but disabled the actual controller rather than just the individual drive.

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[SolarOnline]

Did you check to see if it was visible in the Bios?

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[HamalSharatan]

Yeah, it was visible on the bios, but I couldn't boot into it.