Windows can find it but Fdisk can't

[Norsemen]

I found one of my old Hard drives from last year. Well I hooked it up and when windows loads it finds both my hard drives and all the partitions. When I go into fdisk it only shows my C drive and not the hard drive I just put in. When I type fdisk /status it shows the drive I just put in and the old one. Why can fdisk find the information when I put in /status but not when I type fdisk?

Why doesn't fdisk see the drive I just installed and it's partitions? How can I remove the partition's and reformat the drive.

Shaun

 

[wolluf]

Did you change to view disk 2 (when more than 1 fdisk has option to change which disk you're looking at - it shows disk 1 by default).

 

[Snickle]

Item #5 in the fdisk menu lets you view how many drives are installed and to change drives to view partition/s.

 

[Enkrypted]

If windows can see the drive but fdisk can't it sounds like that drive has a non-dos partition <such as NTFS or possibly a different type. Follow the post above this one. If it is a non-dos partition, delete it and create a new partition...