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May 9th 09, 03:34 AM
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1 TB External Hard Drive Problem
I got a large external hard drive today and it's instructions say to go to
disk management and do format and partition. I messed up and deleted the drives volume. Now it is not listed in disk management. I looked everywhere to get it back and can't figure it out. How do I make Vista recognize this drive again so I can partition and format it? -- Walt 
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May 9th 09, 05:26 AM
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1 TB External Hard Drive Problem
Reboot. See if it is now visible in Disk Management.
-- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... I got a large external hard drive today and it's instructions say to go to disk management and do format and partition. I messed up and deleted the drives volume. Now it is not listed in disk management. I looked everywhere to get it back and can't figure it out. How do I make Vista recognize this drive again so I can partition and format it? -- Walt
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May 9th 09, 02:15 PM
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1 TB External Hard Drive Problem
Rebooting didn't help.
-- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Reboot. See if it is now visible in Disk Management. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... I got a large external hard drive today and it's instructions say to go to disk management and do format and partition. I messed up and deleted the drives volume. Now it is not listed in disk management. I looked everywhere to get it back and can't figure it out. How do I make Vista recognize this drive again so I can partition and format it? -- Walt
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May 9th 09, 06:16 PM
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1 TB External Hard Drive Problem
You are saying that the drive itself is not visible in Vista's Disk
Management utility? Go to device manager. Go to drives and uninstall/delete the drive. Shut down the computer. When you restart is the drive seen in device manager after a redetection? If not, see if the drive is seen in the computers bios. What is the drives designation? -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... Rebooting didn't help. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Reboot. See if it is now visible in Disk Management. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... I got a large external hard drive today and it's instructions say to go to disk management and do format and partition. I messed up and deleted the drives volume. Now it is not listed in disk management. I looked everywhere to get it back and can't figure it out. How do I make Vista recognize this drive again so I can partition and format it? -- Walt
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May 10th 09, 02:33 AM
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1 TB External Hard Drive Problem
In device manager under disk drives are 6 USB devices.
1. - ST3250310AS ATA device 2. - Teac USB HS-CF card USB device 3. - Teac USB HS-MS card USB device 4. - Teac USB HS-SD card USB device 5. - Teac USB HS-xD/SM card USB device 6. - WDC WDIO EAVS-00D7B1 It allowed me to delete the top and bottom one. The other 4 reinstalled as fast as I could uninstall them. After rebooting this did not help either. The external drive is not listed in computer or disk management. There has to be a way to get it back. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... You are saying that the drive itself is not visible in Vista's Disk Management utility? Go to device manager. Go to drives and uninstall/delete the drive. Shut down the computer. When you restart is the drive seen in device manager after a redetection? If not, see if the drive is seen in the computers bios. What is the drives designation? -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... Rebooting didn't help. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Reboot. See if it is now visible in Disk Management. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... I got a large external hard drive today and it's instructions say to go to disk management and do format and partition. I messed up and deleted the drives volume. Now it is not listed in disk management. I looked everywhere to get it back and can't figure it out. How do I make Vista recognize this drive again so I can partition and format it? -- Walt
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May 10th 09, 02:48 AM
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1 TB External Hard Drive Problem
Again, is it listed in the bios? If not the operating system can never see
it either. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... In device manager under disk drives are 6 USB devices. 1. - ST3250310AS ATA device 2. - Teac USB HS-CF card USB device 3. - Teac USB HS-MS card USB device 4. - Teac USB HS-SD card USB device 5. - Teac USB HS-xD/SM card USB device 6. - WDC WDIO EAVS-00D7B1 It allowed me to delete the top and bottom one. The other 4 reinstalled as fast as I could uninstall them. After rebooting this did not help either. The external drive is not listed in computer or disk management. There has to be a way to get it back. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... You are saying that the drive itself is not visible in Vista's Disk Management utility? Go to device manager. Go to drives and uninstall/delete the drive. Shut down the computer. When you restart is the drive seen in device manager after a redetection? If not, see if the drive is seen in the computers bios. What is the drives designation? -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... Rebooting didn't help. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Reboot. See if it is now visible in Disk Management. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... I got a large external hard drive today and it's instructions say to go to disk management and do format and partition. I messed up and deleted the drives volume. Now it is not listed in disk management. I looked everywhere to get it back and can't figure it out. How do I make Vista recognize this drive again so I can partition and format it? -- Walt
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May 10th 09, 05:01 AM
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1 TB External Hard Drive Problem
I don't know how to check it in the bios. How about a helping hand here with
a brief instruction on how to do that? -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Again, is it listed in the bios? If not the operating system can never see it either. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... In device manager under disk drives are 6 USB devices. 1. - ST3250310AS ATA device 2. - Teac USB HS-CF card USB device 3. - Teac USB HS-MS card USB device 4. - Teac USB HS-SD card USB device 5. - Teac USB HS-xD/SM card USB device 6. - WDC WDIO EAVS-00D7B1 It allowed me to delete the top and bottom one. The other 4 reinstalled as fast as I could uninstall them. After rebooting this did not help either. The external drive is not listed in computer or disk management. There has to be a way to get it back. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... You are saying that the drive itself is not visible in Vista's Disk Management utility? Go to device manager. Go to drives and uninstall/delete the drive. Shut down the computer. When you restart is the drive seen in device manager after a redetection? If not, see if the drive is seen in the computers bios. What is the drives designation? -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... Rebooting didn't help. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Reboot. See if it is now visible in Disk Management. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... I got a large external hard drive today and it's instructions say to go to disk management and do format and partition. I messed up and deleted the drives volume. Now it is not listed in disk management. I looked everywhere to get it back and can't figure it out. How do I make Vista recognize this drive again so I can partition and format it? -- Walt
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May 10th 09, 05:17 AM
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1 TB External Hard Drive Problem
Every computer has it's own methodology to get into the bios. Turn off the
computer. Turn it back on. Watch the screen carefully. You will see a message along the line of "press "whatever key" to enter the bios. Then look around the bios for a page that shows the drives connected to the computer. Exit the bios **WITHOUT** saving any changes you may have inadvertently made. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... I don't know how to check it in the bios. How about a helping hand here with a brief instruction on how to do that? -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Again, is it listed in the bios? If not the operating system can never see it either. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... In device manager under disk drives are 6 USB devices. 1. - ST3250310AS ATA device 2. - Teac USB HS-CF card USB device 3. - Teac USB HS-MS card USB device 4. - Teac USB HS-SD card USB device 5. - Teac USB HS-xD/SM card USB device 6. - WDC WDIO EAVS-00D7B1 It allowed me to delete the top and bottom one. The other 4 reinstalled as fast as I could uninstall them. After rebooting this did not help either. The external drive is not listed in computer or disk management. There has to be a way to get it back. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... You are saying that the drive itself is not visible in Vista's Disk Management utility? Go to device manager. Go to drives and uninstall/delete the drive. Shut down the computer. When you restart is the drive seen in device manager after a redetection? If not, see if the drive is seen in the computers bios. What is the drives designation? -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... Rebooting didn't help. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Reboot. See if it is now visible in Disk Management. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... I got a large external hard drive today and it's instructions say to go to disk management and do format and partition. I messed up and deleted the drives volume. Now it is not listed in disk management. I looked everywhere to get it back and can't figure it out. How do I make Vista recognize this drive again so I can partition and format it? -- Walt
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May 10th 09, 12:48 PM
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1 TB External Hard Drive Problem
Device 1 is a Seagate 250GB SATA 300 drive see:
Before you deleted it did you check its properties and driver status? Have you tried disconnecting the drive and then reconnecting it after the system is running? Can you hear the drive running when you turn on its power switch? Device 6 appears to be a Western Digital SCSI disk. Same questions for it. "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... In device manager under disk drives are 6 USB devices. 1. - ST3250310AS ATA device 2. - Teac USB HS-CF card USB device 3. - Teac USB HS-MS card USB device 4. - Teac USB HS-SD card USB device 5. - Teac USB HS-xD/SM card USB device 6. - WDC WDIO EAVS-00D7B1 It allowed me to delete the top and bottom one. The other 4 reinstalled as fast as I could uninstall them. After rebooting this did not help either. The external drive is not listed in computer or disk management. There has to be a way to get it back. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... You are saying that the drive itself is not visible in Vista's Disk Management utility? Go to device manager. Go to drives and uninstall/delete the drive. Shut down the computer. When you restart is the drive seen in device manager after a redetection? If not, see if the drive is seen in the computers bios. What is the drives designation? -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... Rebooting didn't help. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Reboot. See if it is now visible in Disk Management. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... I got a large external hard drive today and it's instructions say to go to disk management and do format and partition. I messed up and deleted the drives volume. Now it is not listed in disk management. I looked everywhere to get it back and can't figure it out. How do I make Vista recognize this drive again so I can partition and format it? -- Walt
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May 10th 09, 06:47 PM
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External drives don't typically show up in BIOS. I can't say if that's true
for E-SATA but USB and firewire don't. Those don't show up anywhere until after Windows loads their device drivers. The external drive should have entries in Device Manager. As well as being listed under Disk drives it would also be listed under USB controllers as a USB Mass storage device, or under IEEE 1394 devices. Not sure where-all E-SATA drives show up. Some external USB harddrives are not detected properly if they are connected and running while the computer is booting up. In that case Windows installs a dummy unidentified device driver in its place. Cycling the power on the drive often does nothing to help Windows find it because the unidentified device driver is actually on the USB port that the harddrive is connected to. Moving the drive to a different USB port would be one workaround. First choice would be to uninstall the unidentified USB device, turn off the drive then reboot. When Windows is loaded turn on the external drive and it should be detected properly again as a USB Mass storage device. After Windows redetects the drive it should hopefully reappear in the Drive Management list. If not you may need to use the external drive manufacturer's utility to partition the drive. "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Every computer has it's own methodology to get into the bios. Turn off the computer. Turn it back on. Watch the screen carefully. You will see a message along the line of "press "whatever key" to enter the bios. Then look around the bios for a page that shows the drives connected to the computer. Exit the bios **WITHOUT** saving any changes you may have inadvertently made. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... I don't know how to check it in the bios. How about a helping hand here with a brief instruction on how to do that? -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Again, is it listed in the bios? If not the operating system can never see it either. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... In device manager under disk drives are 6 USB devices. 1. - ST3250310AS ATA device 2. - Teac USB HS-CF card USB device 3. - Teac USB HS-MS card USB device 4. - Teac USB HS-SD card USB device 5. - Teac USB HS-xD/SM card USB device 6. - WDC WDIO EAVS-00D7B1 It allowed me to delete the top and bottom one. The other 4 reinstalled as fast as I could uninstall them. After rebooting this did not help either. The external drive is not listed in computer or disk management. There has to be a way to get it back. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... You are saying that the drive itself is not visible in Vista's Disk Management utility? Go to device manager. Go to drives and uninstall/delete the drive. Shut down the computer. When you restart is the drive seen in device manager after a redetection? If not, see if the drive is seen in the computers bios. What is the drives designation? -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... Rebooting didn't help. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Reboot. See if it is now visible in Disk Management. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... I got a large external hard drive today and it's instructions say to go to disk management and do format and partition. I messed up and deleted the drives volume. Now it is not listed in disk management. I looked everywhere to get it back and can't figure it out. How do I make Vista recognize this drive again so I can partition and format it? -- Walt
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