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Missing SATA Drive on Vista Ultimate Machine
I have a home built PC running Vista Ultimate - recently encountered issue
where 1TB SATA HDD (used for backups and data storage - not primary drive) is no longer recognised by the PC. The HDD itself seems to be working - if I remove it and connect to another box it seems OK. All the cabling and connectors also seem OK. I've tried to reinstall by deleting and reinstalling drivers etc - nothing seems to work. Ideas/suggestions appreciated Rgds Wenzel |
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Missing SATA Drive on Vista Ultimate Machine
Hi,
Is the drive being detected in the system BIOS? -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "Wenzel" wrote in message ... I have a home built PC running Vista Ultimate - recently encountered issue where 1TB SATA HDD (used for backups and data storage - not primary drive) is no longer recognised by the PC. The HDD itself seems to be working - if I remove it and connect to another box it seems OK. All the cabling and connectors also seem OK. I've tried to reinstall by deleting and reinstalling drivers etc - nothing seems to work. Ideas/suggestions appreciated Rgds Wenzel |
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Missing SATA Drive on Vista Ultimate Machine
Internal drive or external drive?
Either way, check/replace the cable. Also, the port you attach to may have gone south. It happens. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Wenzel" wrote in message ... I have a home built PC running Vista Ultimate - recently encountered issue where 1TB SATA HDD (used for backups and data storage - not primary drive) is no longer recognised by the PC. The HDD itself seems to be working - if I remove it and connect to another box it seems OK. All the cabling and connectors also seem OK. I've tried to reinstall by deleting and reinstalling drivers etc - nothing seems to work. Ideas/suggestions appreciated Rgds Wenzel |
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Missing SATA Drive on Vista Ultimate Machine
Thanks for the quick response
HDD is a Seagate - internal not external. Have amanged to get it to detect in Windows Device Manager - but unable to load volume - file system is RAW in the Logical Disk Management tool. I ran GetDataBack (GDB) from Runtime Software - this shows that the data is still on the drive - biggest problem if I decide to do a restore using GDB is that I don't have enough disk storgae elsewhere to restore to so ..............? Not sure if rebuilding the MBR would be enough or if this might cause more issues (???) Thanks in advance for other suggestions. Wenzel "Richard Urban" wrote: Internal drive or external drive? Either way, check/replace the cable. Also, the port you attach to may have gone south. It happens. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Wenzel" wrote in message ... I have a home built PC running Vista Ultimate - recently encountered issue where 1TB SATA HDD (used for backups and data storage - not primary drive) is no longer recognised by the PC. The HDD itself seems to be working - if I remove it and connect to another box it seems OK. All the cabling and connectors also seem OK. I've tried to reinstall by deleting and reinstalling drivers etc - nothing seems to work. Ideas/suggestions appreciated Rgds Wenzel |
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Missing SATA Drive on Vista Ultimate Machine
If the file system is RAW you will have to create, and then format, a
partition on the drive. If there is information on the drive now there are recovery programs that can get at the files and copy them to another drive. Then, you do as I said above - after you have recovered what you need. I use EasyRecovery Professional. There is a special module just for recovering files from a RAW partition. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Wenzel" wrote in message ... Thanks for the quick response HDD is a Seagate - internal not external. Have amanged to get it to detect in Windows Device Manager - but unable to load volume - file system is RAW in the Logical Disk Management tool. I ran GetDataBack (GDB) from Runtime Software - this shows that the data is still on the drive - biggest problem if I decide to do a restore using GDB is that I don't have enough disk storgae elsewhere to restore to so .............? Not sure if rebuilding the MBR would be enough or if this might cause more issues (???) Thanks in advance for other suggestions. Wenzel "Richard Urban" wrote: Internal drive or external drive? Either way, check/replace the cable. Also, the port you attach to may have gone south. It happens. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Wenzel" wrote in message ... I have a home built PC running Vista Ultimate - recently encountered issue where 1TB SATA HDD (used for backups and data storage - not primary drive) is no longer recognised by the PC. The HDD itself seems to be working - if I remove it and connect to another box it seems OK. All the cabling and connectors also seem OK. I've tried to reinstall by deleting and reinstalling drivers etc - nothing seems to work. Ideas/suggestions appreciated Rgds Wenzel |
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Missing SATA Drive on Vista Ultimate Machine
I have the same problem too but with my RAID, this only happens when I
install a program that is not a standlone program on my C: drive my D: drive is my RAID 0, I am also using readyboost. My friend stated there is problem with readyboost and NVDIA. After rebooting the computer the D: shows back up on My Computer "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... If the file system is RAW you will have to create, and then format, a partition on the drive. If there is information on the drive now there are recovery programs that can get at the files and copy them to another drive. Then, you do as I said above - after you have recovered what you need. I use EasyRecovery Professional. There is a special module just for recovering files from a RAW partition. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Wenzel" wrote in message ... Thanks for the quick response HDD is a Seagate - internal not external. Have amanged to get it to detect in Windows Device Manager - but unable to load volume - file system is RAW in the Logical Disk Management tool. I ran GetDataBack (GDB) from Runtime Software - this shows that the data is still on the drive - biggest problem if I decide to do a restore using GDB is that I don't have enough disk storgae elsewhere to restore to so .............? Not sure if rebuilding the MBR would be enough or if this might cause more issues (???) Thanks in advance for other suggestions. Wenzel "Richard Urban" wrote: Internal drive or external drive? Either way, check/replace the cable. Also, the port you attach to may have gone south. It happens. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Wenzel" wrote in message ... I have a home built PC running Vista Ultimate - recently encountered issue where 1TB SATA HDD (used for backups and data storage - not primary drive) is no longer recognised by the PC. The HDD itself seems to be working - if I remove it and connect to another box it seems OK. All the cabling and connectors also seem OK. I've tried to reinstall by deleting and reinstalling drivers etc - nothing seems to work. Ideas/suggestions appreciated Rgds Wenzel |